german youth luger

[tom]

Both my father and father in law were there. My father during the war and Father in law as a member of the constabulary occupying Germany.


What you have said is 100% consistent with their stories to me.


In fact, my father in law had several US weapons-Army Riot guns, thet were "Found on Post" converted to long barrel shotguns and restocked by German gunsmiths. he had to order the barrels from the USA (Stoeger) and the german did the stock work and barrel conversion/rebluing. The US ordinance markings were ground off. All was done for 2 packs of cigarettes. I restored one of these to original configuration several years ago and gave it to my son. The restoration cost considerably more than two packs of smokes.


According to both of these old vets, Germans were forbidden to possess ANY weapon, so GIs took military stuff, medieval swords, cross bows, museum pieces...It sucks to lose a war.


Tom