Interesting WW1 German military photos

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Originally Posted by Ron Wood

Ron,
Thank you for the link! It still hasn't been determined what unit or organization had the DH Lugers. For the longest time the most likely explanation was that the lazy "S" over the skull and crossbones represented the sweep of a flamethrower and the guns were carried by a flammenwerfer unit. The wide range of dates on the surviving examples and the rudimentary detail of the chamber marking suggest that they may have been utilized by a Freikorps unit during the Weimar era. Here is a photo of an armored car and flamethrower taken during the Kapp Putsch.

Please note the very rare "Turkish contract helmets"
Just a few thousand were made and not shiped to Turkey due the end of WW1, some of them were used by Freikorps.