Historical snapshot: A Nazi with a 38/44

ParadiseRoad said:
...suppose it still said "Made in USA" on the flip side?...
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tenntex32 said:
I would have to ask a curator to check for that if I was ever at the museum!

Dale
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I fished this old unsourced photo out of a very old thread on the topic on this forum. If it's authentic, it provides the answer ;)
 

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Absalom said:
To amend the incomplete information about Hans Diebel's fate: . . . Diebel and his boss, West Coast Bund leader Hermann Schwinn, had been indicted and convicted in both California state and in federal courts on various separate sedition and sabotage charges and were held as enemy aliens after the war for deportation. . .
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I love a story with a happy ending.
 
jpage said:
A Fokker D VII.
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That was his last plane. Since the D VII didn't enter service until May 1918, before that he would have flown whatever the Jastas he was assigned to flew, including the Albatros D V and the Fokker tri-plane that made Richthofen's Jagdgeschwader 1 famous, the "Flying Circus", which Göring later took over.
 
tenntex32 said:
I wonder what Hitler thought about his possible successor wearing an American made revolver? (Assuming he was even aware of it.)

Dale
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Adolf Hitler may have owned S&W Ladysmith 1st model no. 709, but the more I look into his ownership the harder it is to fill in all the blanks. The story is that an American GI found it in Hitler's residential apartment in Munich in early May of 1945 and brought it back to the US.
 
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Absalom said:
That was his last plane. Since the D VII didn't enter service until May 1918, before that he would have flown whatever the Jastas he was assigned to flew, including the Albatros D V and the Fokker tri-plane that made Richthofen's Jagdgeschwader 1 famous, the "Flying Circus", which Göring later took over.
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And of course he wasnt the "blimp" back then.:rolleyes:

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Yup, that's one of the 'official' dating portrait of Hermann ( or Herman ) He didn't become bloated up until he received an gsw in the abdomen during the 1923 Putsch. He was spirited away by fellow Nazis, & became fully addicted to either Codeine, or Morphine. ( Historical records tend to e unclear on this point. ) He spent a good deal of time at a Swiss Sanitorium for his ever increasing addition, but it only got progressively worse as time went on. IIRC,doesn't his S&W H.E. / M&P still reside at the Army's West Point Museum ?

Best, dpast32
 
Herman's brother, Albert was totally different from Herman, Totally !! Somewhat recently PBS ran a TV documentary about Albert, detailing how he was fully focused on assisting people to escape the Nazi's, & even to use his own funds to pay for all the related expenses. He used his famous name to circumvent his brother's policies, all at the risk of his life, & that of his family too. Numerous time He was under investigation by the Gestapo & Kripo but was fortunate enough to be able to use the Goring family name to keep them at arms length. He was truly an amazing individual, that history appears to have forgotten about.

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