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Dr.Zohar asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 1 decade ago

What kind of pistol the German officers use at WWII?

I have two options but I'm not sure witch one of those was the most common :

a) Dragon German WWII Walther P38

b) Dragon German WWII Luger

I'm not expecting you tell me I think was (a) or (b), I really need to know exactly witch one was the most common they use with verify information. Web links could be great.

Thanks in advance for any help and happy holidays.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Standard issue was the Walther P38 from 1938 on. Total production was about 1.2 million pistols. The P38 was the most common German pistol of the war.

    Lugers were issued prior to that and were manufactured until 1943 by Mauser. They remained in service until the end of the war, they were prized by the officers that carried them and the most desirable of war-trophies. You'd also find a smattering of broomhandle mausers and other pistols.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Wwii German Pistols

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Allied soldiers liked the MP40 type weapons, lighter and more reliable than their own automatic weapons, plus took normal 9mm rounds (they couldn't use the MP-44 because no ammo) German pistols were popular for a number of reasons, firstly most soldiers didn't have pistols and soldiers always like having a little insurance in case their main gun breaks, so getting a pistol was always a no1 priority for combat infantrymen, secondly the luger was an iconic gun even before WW2 and troops liked getting them as they could be sold later. The MG42 was always popular but no allied ammo worked in it. everyone liked the Japanese officers katana swords (samurai swords) - pretty obvious why! The germans liked the Russian ppsh sub-machine gun, same 9mm ammo as the MP40, but with 72+ rounds per clip vs 32 rounds in an MP40, it was very tough and reliable and very, very popular with the german troops, as mentioned above Russian pistols were also popular (for the same reasons German pistols were popular with allied infantry) (all soldiers in every army wanted pistols - since their own army didn't give them out, they had to take captured ones instead)

  • 6 years ago

    Higher ranking officers usually carried smaller pistols than the Luger and P38, which were used by NCO's and support troops such as tankers, MG crews, etc.

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  • 4 years ago

    Ww2 German Handguns

  • 1 decade ago

    Walther P-38: Total German production is estimated at more than 1,200,000 pistols.

    Luger P-08: Over 250,000 P-08s were made for various countries. so correctly identifying a member of a given series is challenging.

    But the P-38 wins hands down in terms of sheer numbers produced

  • 1 decade ago

    A LUGER P38 Walther..its like a colt except harder to use and less powerfull

    Source(s): im a history geek on wars
  • 1 decade ago

    P-38 was the standard issue sidearm. Luger was much older, and much more expensive to manufacture.

  • Naz F
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    The Luger. It's mentioned in all the war movies.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    as far as i can remember was luger

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