Police Lugers Post 1945 used where and by whom?

policeluger · 10-09-2002, 12:18 PM

Well Ed my knowledge is even "sketcher", but I find the history interesting so here goes. The rig is as follows, and is matching, total matching, gun is a 1921 dated DWM police, grip marked S.D. VI.953, serial #4440, no letter suffix, the one original matched mag is HS with 4440 on bottom, I say one original mag, I will get to the spare mag in a second. Now the holster is a WW1 artillery cut down and police strap and stud added, then the S.D.VI.953 and below that 4440 was added to the back. This is not an arsnel refinish or import marked gun. Now at what I believe was post April 1945, the S.D.VI.953 was "strippled" over on the holster, but not the gun???. You can still read it but hard too. And the loops were taken off the back of holster and wed hanger added. I have seen several History channel doc films where what I believe too be are German police, in uniforms that were sanitazed of nazi emblems, directing traffic and so forth, with a web GI belt and a Luger holster hanging from them. I feel that this was so used and was a late war bring back perhaps from a US MP???...I just do not know for sure. And the original tool, SN to the gun from the Weimar period is also there, now to the second mag. A few hours after I got the gun at the LA Great Western show several years back I was showing the gun to Tom Heller, he said in the back of mind something told him he had, back home, a naval mag with a police style 4440 on it, he did, I bought it an added it to the rig, there was no letter suffix on it and the 4440 was over an old naval SN. We both felt that this type of use by the Germans, not throwing away good mag, was accepted use, but still was added after I found the gun. Much like the mag safety issue now going on. Hope this help and ask away if I can add anything else I sure will

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10-09-2002, 12:18 PM	#2
policeluger RIP Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Ca. Posts: 2,141 Thanks: 8 Thanked 89 Times in 54 Posts	Well Ed my knowledge is even "sketcher", but I find the history interesting so here goes. The rig is as follows, and is matching, total matching, gun is a 1921 dated DWM police, grip marked S.D. VI.953, serial #4440, no letter suffix, the one original matched mag is HS with 4440 on bottom, I say one original mag, I will get to the spare mag in a second. Now the holster is a WW1 artillery cut down and police strap and stud added, then the S.D.VI.953 and below that 4440 was added to the back. This is not an arsnel refinish or import marked gun. Now at what I believe was post April 1945, the S.D.VI.953 was "strippled" over on the holster, but not the gun???. You can still read it but hard too. And the loops were taken off the back of holster and wed hanger added. I have seen several History channel doc films where what I believe too be are German police, in uniforms that were sanitazed of nazi emblems, directing traffic and so forth, with a web GI belt and a Luger holster hanging from them. I feel that this was so used and was a late war bring back perhaps from a US MP???...I just do not know for sure. And the original tool, SN to the gun from the Weimar period is also there, now to the second mag. A few hours after I got the gun at the LA Great Western show several years back I was showing the gun to Tom Heller, he said in the back of mind something told him he had, back home, a naval mag with a police style 4440 on it, he did, I bought it an added it to the rig, there was no letter suffix on it and the 4440 was over an old naval SN. We both felt that this type of use by the Germans, not throwing away good mag, was accepted use, but still was added after I found the gun. Much like the mag safety issue now going on. Hope this help and ask away if I can add anything else I sure will