Impressive Auction

[hansfischer007]

After looking at the collection shown......one just has to wonder how many similar pistols...for example .....were brought back in some GIs duffel bag...and are now lying in a footlocker or in an attic somewhere....Im sure we have all seen the photos of the piles and piles of pistols...rifles and shotguns in all the German towns and small villages at the end of the war....when the German citizens had to surrender all their firearms.....and the story Ive always heard from some vets....they were allowed to go thru "the pile" and pick out one to take home......also the looting which took place in the weapons factories both off the assembly lines and in the museum displays.....a few years back...the head of our local Miitary Club....had an elderly lady call him about an "old German rifle" her husband had brought back from WW2.....had been standing in back of their closet for many years.....it was a fully automatic MP 44......in very good condition...(he has a Class 3 license)...anyway...just one example of whats "still out there"....in closets..footlockers...attics...etc......makes you really wonder what is left.......Im sure lots more to surface...... Hans Fischer