Pic of my grandfather with his bring back Luger.

[BrianSFL]

Originally Posted by Olle

That ashtray is weird... It looks like "Manneken Pis", which is a popular figure in Belgium and probably popular as decoration on different houshold items as well. But how they could get away with producing something like that in a country occupied by the nazis is beyond me. Maybe the little boy peeing on the swastika was meant as a sneaky protest against the Germans?

I thought it was probably just a one off thing. However, many of these exist and are for sale in various places, and it is indeed a Manneken Pis take-off.

Someone here hypothesizes it might have been a post-liberation item from 1944-1945:

http://www.warrelics.eu/forum/art-de...shtray-163670/

Someone who was selling a similar one here says "Made to celebrate the liberation of Belgium from German occupation in 1944."

http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedi...nazi-253512250

Being as my grandfather was in Belgium, I guess that makes sense now.