1941 Mauser byf SS Rig

1940 Mauser Banner Police Eagle L

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The Waffen-SS (German for "Armed SS", literally "Weapons SS") was the combat arm of the Schutzstaffel ("Protective Squadron") or SS, an organ of the Nazi Party. The Waffen-SS saw action throughout World War II and grew from three regiments to over 38 divisions, and served alongside the Wehrmacht Heer regular army, but was never formally part of it. It was Adolf Hitler's will that the Waffen-SS never be integrated into the army: it was to remain the armed wing of the Party and to become an elite police force once the war was over.

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Adolf Hitler reviewing the SS (*Schutzstaffel)* along with Josef "Sepp" Dietrich (right with lapel open) who was a German Waffen-SS general, an SS-Oberstgruppenführer, and one of the men closest to Adolf Hitler. For his wartime services, he was one of only 27 men to be awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds.
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	Back of Holster
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Stamps on Holster
The holster is marked with the manufacturer's cartouche and the date. The P08 was added in 1941 and you can also see the Waffenamt proof representing acceptance by the German Military (Heer). Below you can see the all matching Luger, the 2nd FXO magazine, the loading tool, dated holster and SS Buckle with a period belt, "d" ring attachments and authentic chest strap.
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SS troops marching under arms (with Lugers) with the Deutschland Erwache (German Awake) Banners

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Here is the Luger in full recoil with the rear main axel pin exposed. The frame is a Mauser frame as you can see the 2mm hump that Mauser built into the frames to protect the rear main axel pin. In 1932 the Reichswehrministerium issued an order that the rear connecting pin be serial numbered to the gun which was required by order in 1933.

Gun Standing w/ Holster and Belt
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It is very difficult to find an all matching serial numbered gun and a matching magazine. This is a premium rig for the serious collector who demands the best in collectable Lugers.
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Gun In Holster
Here we have the proof markings on the back of the holster along with Waffen Amt marking in the late style with straight wings. The holster is dated 1941 (as gun) and contains is the saddle maker's stamp. The holster is still soft leather, with all the stitching intact and functional.



	Left: German Waffen SS troops in a forward observer position. This was early in the war before the helmet covers were adopted. The Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler (LSSAH) founded in September 1933 was Adolf Hitler's personal Bodyguard Regiment ("Leibstandarte" ) being a somewhat archaic German expression for the personal bodyguard of a military leader).
The term *SturmAbteilung* originally came from the specialized assault troops used by Germany in 1918 in World War I. Instead of a large mass assault, the SturmAbteilung were organized into small teams of a few soldiers each. Under their popular leader Ernst , the SA grew in importance within the Nazi power structure, eventually claiming thousands of members. Eventually Röhm grew too powerful and was imprisoned and latter killed by the SS. The SS was formed initially as personal guards for Hitler during the rallies and travels and was soon assimilated by Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler's as the SS organization, through the SS Führungshauptamt, literally The SS Guidance Principal Office. In the early years, membership was open to true "Aryans" only in accordance with the racial policies of the Nazi state.	A German recruiting poster encouraging men to enlist in the Waffen SS and giving them an address as to where to go to join.

When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Hermann Göring, then Prussian minister of the interior, detached the political and espionage units from the regular Prussian police, filled their ranks with thousands of Nazis, and, on April 26, 1933, reorganized them under his personal command as the Gestapo. Simultaneously, Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, the Nazi paramilitary corps, together with his aide Reinhardt Heydrich, similarly reorganized the police of Bavaria and the remaining German states. Himmler was given command over Göring’s Gestapo in April 1934 and on June 17, 1936, was made German chief of police with the title of Reichsführer. Nominally under the Ministry of the Interior, Germany’s police forces now were unified under Himmler as head of both the SS and the Gestapo.

Translated as "order police", Ordnungspolizei referred to uniformed police units formed by an act of the German Interior Ministry in the summer of 1936. The act decreed that the regular German police forces were to be absorbed into the SS, which would then incorporate all local, state, and national level law enforcement agencies.

The police were divided into the Ordnungspolizei (Orpo or regular police) and the Sicherheitspolizei (Sipo or security police). The Orpo assumed duties of regular uniformed law enforcement while the Sipo consisted of the secret state police Geheime-Staatspolizei or Gestapo and criminal investigation police Kriminalpolizei or Kripo. The Gestapo was a corps of professional detectives involved in political police duties and the task of the Kriminalpolizei was fighting crime. On September 1939, the Sipo was combined with the secret service of the SS Sicherheitsdienst (SD) into the Main Office for Security of the Reich the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA). RSHA symbolize the narrow connection between SS (party organization) and police (state organization).

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