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Q I have a Luger that I took from a Hungarian lieutenant in World War II. The gun has two dates — 1913 above which is 1920. There is a crown below which says “Erfurt” and beside i… ...
The Luger P08 pistol is an iconic German firearm that has etched its name in history, playing a significant role in both World War I and World War II. Known for its distinctive toggle-lock mechanism, ...
German production of the Luger pistol ceased with the termination of World War II, although a few guns were assembled for occupation forces after the war was over.
On-screen, the unnamed German colonel offers Winters a Luger as a show of his surrender. Winters tells the man to keep his sidearm, showing his respect for the enemy soldier.
One of postwar Germany’s most publicized terrorism trials concluded Friday as a former German soldier was sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison for plotting a far-right attack on senior ...
BERLIN — A German soldier who falsely registered as a Syrian asylum seeker while plotting domestic terrorism was convicted of preparing a “serious act of violence endangering the state,” one ...
In January 1945, in a German POW camp, a U.S. soldier named Roddie Edmonds defied the threat of death to protect the Jewish troops under his command. Seventy years later, he's being recognized for ...
The Walther P-38 arguably supplants even the infamous Luger P.08 as the definitive German pistol of the 20th century. Its development began in the early 1930s, when a cash-strapped German army ...
PARACHUTING through the craggy ridges of the Bavarian Alps in July of 1944, two men disguised as German soldiers planned to shoot Adolf Hitler in cold blood.