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alanint · 06-06-2014, 12:04 PM

Welcome to the forum. You have a nice commercial Luger in great shape.
With all due respect to the family story behind this pistol, unless your father was a member of the Russian army, it is highly unlikely that this pistol came from a crateful at the Reich Chancellery.
No US troops came close to this building until the end of and after hostilities and it is highly unlikely that invading Soviet troops would have missed looting a crateful of Lugers sitting around in this building.
It is not unusual for family lore to be embellished. We see it here fairly often.

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06-06-2014, 12:04 PM	#9
alanint User Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Marco Island, Florida Posts: 4,867 Thanks: 1,685 Thanked 1,917 Times in 1,193 Posts	Welcome to the forum. You have a nice commercial Luger in great shape. With all due respect to the family story behind this pistol, unless your father was a member of the Russian army, it is highly unlikely that this pistol came from a crateful at the Reich Chancellery. No US troops came close to this building until the end of and after hostilities and it is highly unlikely that invading Soviet troops would have missed looting a crateful of Lugers sitting around in this building. It is not unusual for family lore to be embellished. We see it here fairly often.