In the mid 1950s a lot of these revolvers, issued to the civilian police dep'ts in Germany by the occupying Allied Forces ,were purchased as surplus guns by American importers and sold here in the US. I recall going into a Montgomery Wrads store one day here in San Diego and a table piled high with these guns was on sale for about $9.95 ea. I went through the pile and picked out about a dozen guns, all with different German Police stampings. A WW2 vet friend of mine, that had served with the occupation troops in the American sector, said that the guns turned over to the Germans by the British were marked in German, by the German units in the British sector with the various dep't stamps where the gun were issued. The guns issued in the American sector by the Americans were marked in English with the unit's designation, so that American MPs, etc. could then tell that a German with one of these guns was probably a legitimate member of the local law enforcement, should he be in plain clothes. Ed.
