Re: Response (long)
Marvin, this should, in all reality, be unnecessary BUT I have gone to the trouble of `phoning G�¶rtz to find out how this preposterous story came about. You contacted a third party (M) and asked him to contact his sources in Europe to find out exactly when Mauser introduced black grips. M contacted G�¶rtz who, like many other authorities, is continually besieged by requests for information. G�¶rtz made it quite clear that he did not consider the question of any importance. An exact date for the change to black grips is very unlikely as previous stocks would have to be used up. M insisted on an answer and G�¶rtz invented this story but did not believe for one moment that M would take him seriously. In fact M MUST have known that none of the details are credible to anyone with even a limited knowledge of European history or geography.
Ergo:-
(a) Germans DO have a sense of humour.
(b) The absurdity of Luger myths is obviously a function of the distance from the source.
PS I couldn�´t care the proverbial monkey�´s whether Hannah Reitsch was lesbian or even whether she sodomized Idi Amin on a regular basis. She was certainly a nasty piece of work. Patrick
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