Really? Learned something new. Haven’t seen that mentioned before.

After WW II, the .38 Webley Mk IV was standard issue to the West Berlin police in the British sector of the city. In contemporary German documents these are listed as caliber “9mm kurz”. That of course is German nomenclature for the .380 ACP, a caliber in which Webley likely did not chamber those revolvers. It startled me initially until I realized that some German bureaucrat had undoubtedly simply “translated” the British .380 revolver caliber, not realizing this was a different .380.