WWII British & French "Souvenir" Regulations

[Dwight Gruber]

Originally posted by Don M
To extend this discussion a bit further, I have also noticed that there are few examples of police unit markings from the Trier, Koblenz and western part of the Wiesbaden districts. This region was in the French Zone following WWII. Can anyone comment on the collecting habits of French forces at the end of WWII?

Don,

I was looking through some back posts and ran into this. You may have come up with the info in the succeeding months, but in case you haven't--the French collected up P-08 and P-38 and used them as their service pistol, so they would not have entered the hands of citizen/collectors.

A good question would be, what happened to all these guns when they went out of French service??

--Dwight