Dwight, Since tha Ernst Thaumann plant was in the former Haenel plant in Suhl that explains the machinery for the new 2/1001 marked extuded mags. And since Suhl was also the former home of Kreighoff, who was assembling PO8s thru the end of WW2, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that some of their production machinery (formerly that of Erfurt & Simson) survived the war. I am the proud owner of one of these N series new production DDR lugers, and can assure you that it is not made up from reworked parts. If so, why would they have bothered to mill off the stock lug and lanyard loop from the frame. TH
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