Luger Book

[George Anderson]

Originally Posted by trap4570

Really!? Has the book been disproved?

Just read the first page monograph on Hans Tauscher. Costanzo references the US aiding Britain in 1916 "in accordance with the Lend Lease Act". Lend Lease did not exist until after 1939.

He goes further and has Tauscher "summoned to Berlin by Von Papen and given direct orders..." von Papen had earlier been disinvited from the US by our government for fomenting trouble with Canada and its involvement in the war. When von Papen returned to Germany in 1916 he was briefly involved with stirring the Irish pot but then assumed his Reservist rank and fought on the Western Front and later Mesopotamia. He was not the Imperial German spy master.

Costanzo was a student and friend of Ralph Shattuck. I suspect that this little booklet is an attempt to boost the value of pistols sold prior to 1916 of which records did survive. The idea that the evil Tauscher substituted the word "sold" for "issued" is ridiculous. Just imagine Tauscher's bookkeeper pulling his hair out trying to reconcile the bank balance with sold pistols.