Given a holster!

[NYlakesider]

Was just given what I was told was a black WW2 era holster for the PO8 Luger. Holster has seen use but still quite serviceable! Has tool and spare magazine!

Only markings I could find were PO8 and it looks like the initials JKH 42 next to a Nazi eagle, WITH a smaller swastika below that.

Below that in much smaller lettering it looks like waa927

Due to problems installing Microsoft 11 I cannot do pictures yet!

Best guess on my part this is just a every day holster for a enlisted man, what say you!

 

[dobegrant]

I believe that pistols were normally carried only by officers but not an expert.

 

[MelvinWalker]

I believe that pistols were normally carried only by officers but not an expert.

German Officers, especially ranks like Oberlutenant and Hauptmann and above, would probably not typically carry a large pistol like a P08 or a P38....That would more likely have been carried by an NCO....

Officers would generally have carried a smaller pistol like a Walther PP, PPK or Mauser HsC.