My Father's WWII Luger

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Originally Posted by Don M

Thanks for the photos. They provide additional evidence that both Hn. and H. were used as abbreviations for Hannover. I suspect the #2 mag was a later replacement.

It is interesting that your dad captured this rig near Gießen, which was in the state of Hessen and not very close to Hannover. This and the holster suggest that the rig was in the hands of the military at that time. It would be very interesting to learn how it got from Hannover to Gießen but I doubt we will ever know.

Well, it is quite unusual that an active rural police unit of Hannover would be captured in Giessen, but on the other hand police units were sent all over Europe during the war.
One example:
A unit founded in September of police officers of the Köthen/Anhalt and Dessau police were ordered to Poland on September 15th 1939, then sent to Stalino/Ukraine in 1942, then sent in 1943 to the Verona area in Northern Italy, then sent to the last stand in East Prussia were they got encircled and captured by the Red Army in February 1945.