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Walther PP .32 made in Germany in 1968. The original PP was released in 1929. [1] It was designed for police use and was used by police forces in Europe in the 1930s and later. [1]
The Walther P38 (originally written Walther P.38) is a 9 mm semi-automatic pistol that was developed by Carl Walther GmbH as the service pistol of the Wehrmacht at the beginning of World War II. It was intended to replace the comparatively complex and expensive to produce Luger P08 .
The following is a list of World War II German Firearms which includes German firearms, prototype firearms and captured foreign firearms used by the Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe, Waffen-SS, Deutsches Heer, the Volkssturm and other military armed forces in World War II.
Beretta has become one of the world's largest pistol makers and the model 1934 (M1934) was their most numerous product in the World War II era. [2] It was designed and purpose-built for the Italian armed forces. In the early 1930s, the Italian army was impressed by the Walther PP pistol.
A third variant Model 8 engraved with Joseph Goebbels' name appeared for sale on the GunsAmerica site in 2011. [6] The Model 8 was a prototype for the Walther PP (Polizei Pistole), and was the last single-action-only pistol manufactured by Walther except for the post-war Walther TP (German: Taschen Pistolen). [7]
It competed with the contemporary German Walther PPK and PP and Sauer 38H for police and military use. It was procured initially by the navy ( Kriegsmarine ) soon followed by the Army and police. HSc pistols used by the Luftwaffe or Waffen-SS were procured from Army and police stocks.
Former models. Walther P38 - The Mauser plant in Oberndorf, Baden-Württemberg, Germany was captured in April 1945 by the French military. With the captured machines and parts of the Walther P.38 pistols manufactured at this plant kept as war reparations, the French firm Manurhin manufactured these pistols between June 1945 and 1946 in contravention of previously agreed upon Allied regulations.
This page contains a list of equipment used the German military of World War II.Germany used a number of type designations for their weapons. In some cases, the type designation and series number (i.e. FlaK 30) are sufficient to identify a system, but occasionally multiple systems of the same type are developed at the same time and share a partial designation.