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(Odd WWII Relic) This Steampunkish Nazi Belt Buckle Pistol Packs A Deadly Surprise
Foxtrot Alpha ^ | Thursday, September 4, 2014 | Tyler Rogoway

Posted on 09/07/2014 3:08:00 PM PDT by DogByte6RER

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This Steampunkish Nazi Belt Buckle Pistol Packs A Deadly Surprise

The Nazis had some pretty wild engineering ideas, and some of them, like the jet engine, ended up being a vision of things to come. Yet others were just over-engineered, strange, and in some cases, downright creepy. This steampunkish Nazi belt buckle four-shooter is one of those things.

The whole idea was to give high-ranking Nazis a way to kill their captors should they be captured on the battlefield. The concept was said to have originated from known German inventor, Louis Marquis, who designed the contraption while he was held as a prisoner of war during WWI.

In operation, the buckle flipped open, where its four barrels would be rotated out, and each .22 cartridge would be fired using spring loaded trigger mechanisms on the opposite side from the barrels. Was it all a bit phallic? Yep.

Strange as they were, these Nazi crotch shooters were intricately built and had a high degree of craftsmanship. and some were incredibly embellished. It is said that they were ordered by Heinrich Himmler to be given to his inner circle, which makes them even creepier.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; History; Military/Veterans; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: 22; banglist; beltbucklegun; contraption; germanengineering; gunsandammo; heinrichhimmler; nazi; steampunk; ww2
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Weird technology from World War II Nazi Germany … it looks like something the villain would pull out as a last resort in an Indiana Jones movie.

1 posted on 09/07/2014 3:08:00 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
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To: DogByte6RER

I remember reading about those when I was a kid.


2 posted on 09/07/2014 3:11:31 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: DogByte6RER

I think most of them realized after all the hell they caused the world, it was easier to consume the cyanide capsule provided rather than attempt to shoot it out with the Allies. Hence, Himmler, Goering, Hitler, Goebbels, all committed suicide rather than be taken or executed. I was watching a program on Nazi technological advances, and the commentator called it “exotic Nazi technology”, weird, like it was some kind of fashion or something. I think deadly is a better description,as was most of, if not all, their advancements were designed for.


3 posted on 09/07/2014 3:15:40 PM PDT by john drake (Lucius Accius-Roman,170 BC - "oderint dum metuant" translated "Let them hate so long as they fear")
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To: DogByte6RER

Looks cool, but WTF is “steampunkish”?


4 posted on 09/07/2014 3:27:51 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: Olog-hai

Didn’t Paladin have a belt buckle with a derringer in it?


5 posted on 09/07/2014 3:27:53 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: DogByte6RER

Was it to be fired while still “buckled”?

If so, woe to the guy with a beer gut. Ouch!

BTW, it sticks in my mind that there was a Civil War-era design kind of like this. A black powder, derringer type weapon that fired out of the belt buckle. Something like that. I remember reading about it in an old library book about 19th century firearms. Might be have some of the details wrong, though, as I was very little when I read about it.


6 posted on 09/07/2014 3:29:19 PM PDT by DemforBush (A Repo Man is always intense.)
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To: john drake

I think some of them took the lesson of Gen. Stupnagel
to heart and chose poison.
When he was on his way to Gestapo custody he took a
pistol and tried to blow his brains out, unfortunately
for him he just managed to blind himself and was later
hung with piano wire. Not a good end at all.


7 posted on 09/07/2014 3:32:51 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: doorgunner69

Steampunk is a type of science fiction involving gadgets and machines in the 19th century using technology of that time (i.e. steam power, etc.). Kind of like the old tv show “The Wild Wild West” with Robert Conrad.

Not really sure how “steampunkish” a WW2 Nazi belt buckle gun is, but I think that’s what the author was alluding to here.


8 posted on 09/07/2014 3:35:29 PM PDT by DemforBush (A Repo Man is always intense.)
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To: DogByte6RER

If you have ever worked on old German drillings this technology looks fairly routine. The amount of trick gadgets on some of them is amazing. Hidden cartridge traps, secret door buttplates, flip up night sights, or how about a thin leather sling that is spring loaded like a tape measure so it comes out of the butt and hooks to the barrel. They are really good at hiding the various levers and latches in the engraving. I shot one with a crossover buttstock, made for a WW1 vet who lost his right eye. It mounts to your right shoulder and hand, then the barrels cross to your left eye. It took a few tries but some clay pigeons did die.


9 posted on 09/07/2014 3:50:31 PM PDT by eartrumpet
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To: DogByte6RER

It is cool, but I don’t believe the story.


10 posted on 09/07/2014 3:52:08 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: DogByte6RER

Talk about shooting from the hip...


11 posted on 09/07/2014 3:54:53 PM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: DogByte6RER

Nice design, I’ve actually seen a more modern version of this done in the 1960’s, no idea if they had taken ideas from this particular piece or not.

The more modern piece did pretty much require suspenders to wear along with the belt. The buckle was incredibly heavy. I imagine this is much the same.


12 posted on 09/07/2014 4:19:16 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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13 posted on 09/07/2014 4:32:41 PM PDT by B4Ranch (Name your illness, do a Google & YouTube search with "hydrogen peroxide". Do it and be surprised.)
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To: DogByte6RER

Well I guests it would have worked once.


14 posted on 09/07/2014 4:35:28 PM PDT by keat
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To: DemforBush

I remember the toy cowboy hat with the gun hidden in a trap door on the inside of the top of the hat.. SURPRISE!


15 posted on 09/07/2014 4:35:45 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: doorgunner69

The writer should sit down and ask himself why he immediately associated a pistol hidden in a belt buckle with the male member.


16 posted on 09/07/2014 4:44:56 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Calvin Locke

I think there were Derringer belt buckles back in the old West...


17 posted on 09/07/2014 4:50:47 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: DogByte6RER
At 10 seconds in on the video is a brief clip of what appears to be a "reverse firing" bolt-action rifle.

What's the story on this?

18 posted on 09/07/2014 4:50:49 PM PDT by Drew68
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Looks like the Canadian made Ross rifle. Take it apart to clean it, reassemble the bolt incorrectly and surprise!


19 posted on 09/07/2014 5:03:07 PM PDT by eartrumpet
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

I remember the forearm version with spring mounted derringer.


20 posted on 09/07/2014 5:52:44 PM PDT by mcshot (Kenya now says 0 or Soebarkah born in U.S..)
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