Gibson, p.15. In brief, in 1934 Krieghoff either acquired the Erfurt tooling from Simson, or had access to it to pattern new tooling. Gibson favors the latter, and notes that Krieghoff himself claims that the tooling for the HK P-08 was made in Krieghoff's Suhl plant.
Gibson also notes (p.14) that ERMA had taken over the Royal Erfurt arsenal, and it is not known if Simson bought the P-08 tooling directly from ERMA or acquired it in some other way.
Thus:
Line 1: Loewe/DWM_________(BKIW)________>Mauser__>|destroyed|...._>|new tooling|_Mauser_>?
Line 2: Bern___________________________________________________/
Line 3: Erfurt___(ERMA??)_>Simson__>|new tooling|_Krieghoff_>?
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