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Jun 6, 2011

A small part of the American legacy; may we deserve it

I like to think it was taken by a U.S. PFC from the remains of a particularly brutal SS officer on this date 67 years ago.





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Serial on the PPk indicates  April, 1940, manufacture, putting it very near the end of the so-called "high-polish" era. The holster is 1936, from Kern Klager & CIe., Berlin.