What is this K date Mauser?

guns3545 · 11-16-2012, 08:33 PM

First, realize that the K-date was an attempt by the emergent Nazi Government in 1934 to disguise who was building what and when..

However the government wanted to carry the deception one step further. As you know Simson was given a 10 year contract by the Allied Control Commission to build a very restricted line of pistols.

But Nazis seized the firm in 1933 and allocated production to Mauser and later to Krieghoff.

The addition of the S's on small parts on the early K-dates as well as the Gothic S/42 code were attempts to make believe that Simson was still building guns turning attention away from the build-up occurring at Mauser in Oberdorf.

John

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11-16-2012, 08:33 PM	#2
guns3545 Lifer Lifetime Forum Patron Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Florida Posts: 438 Thanks: 661 Thanked 493 Times in 219 Posts	First, realize that the K-date was an attempt by the emergent Nazi Government in 1934 to disguise who was building what and when.. However the government wanted to carry the deception one step further. As you know Simson was given a 10 year contract by the Allied Control Commission to build a very restricted line of pistols. But Nazis seized the firm in 1933 and allocated production to Mauser and later to Krieghoff. The addition of the S's on small parts on the early K-dates as well as the Gothic S/42 code were attempts to make believe that Simson was still building guns turning attention away from the build-up occurring at Mauser in Oberdorf. John