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Unread 06-01-2008, 01:26 PM   #4
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Hi,

Of course, there's always the possibility that some guns survived in storage, reference collections or private hands and dripped back into the Bundeswehr that way.

A nice side note is that the Western-German army was basically without reference material (read: their own pre-1945 weapons) after the war. A Dutch collector and commercial manager of NWM, a DWM/IWK subsidiary in the Netherlands had built up a reference collection containing some 800+ firearms at the NWM factory.

Representatives of the Bundeswehr visited NWM around 1950 when the Western-German army was being reinstated and redeveloped. The Germans eventually bought the reference collection and it was to become the basis of the 'Wehrtechnische Studiensammlung' of the Bundeswehr in Koblenz.
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