quote:Originally posted by 1915dwm
Jan, My wife's German aunt says the "Backwards J" is a lower case T. I know the Germans marked other countries weapons incorporated into there armed services with a lower case letter denoting country of origin. Small p for Poland, o for Austria, t for Czech., etc. Is it possible that this weapon was issued to a District ( L) that also incorporated the annexed area of Czech. and the "J" is a small case "t" indicating that? Just a thought. Thanks, Mike
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1915dwm,
sorry, but your wife's German aunt is wrong. There is no "backward j" replacing or representing a lower case "t" in the German alphabet.
However, fact is that a 1918/1920 DWM police P08 with this strange "backward j" unit mark K.L.j.59. on front gripstrap and mag along with 2 death's head Luger holsters (1934 & 1935 military issue), a G-date P08 and some other items, all of which purportedly came from a "veterans family", were offered by a fellow in Las Vegas by the name of JUSTIN MICHAEL.
The holsters were stamped with a death's head on the lower rt/s of the top flap and marked on the underside of the flap with a "K.L.Dachau" property marking. While cleaning the inside flap the "K.L.Dachau" property marking all of a sudden disapeared.
( I have acquired this DH-holster because of my research).
Another DH-Luger-holster containing a K.L.D. police P08 popped up at the Atlanta gunshow in 1998.
Justin Michael and his concentration camp garbage went on Schwindler's List.
Source : Schwindler's List-The Saga Continues by Joe Wotka, AUTOMAG, March/August 1998.
Klaus