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Unread 12-25-2005, 04:00 PM   #11
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Herb,

I can see the photo now. The marking looks OK to me for the 1st administrative district of Breslau. I don't know why the number is so high, but Breslau was a big police district. Normally, these Prussian police sub-districts (I. or II. usually) are much smaller and only go to three digit numbers. I have a bayonet marked to the 2nd district of Breslau and it has only a two digit number.

You are right about Berlin. I have not been there in years but it is huge. There are lots of sub-district Polizei Abschnitt that have several hunderd cops per station house. Charlottenburg off the K-damm is #27 and has around 400 cops. They had around 20,000 policemen in Berlin the last time I visted them.

George
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