That’s how I got my Walther p38. I’m the 3rd generation owner. My grandpa said it was a luger, but I guess he just saw the skinny barrel and didn’t know the difference and thought all German pistols were lugers.
Cool piece, though. It’s one of my concealed carry guns and it has never jammed on me even once
Nice! That’s a good pistol. My dad got his Luger when he disarmed a Chief of Police as the war was ending. I think it is a .40 caliber. He said they would lay hundreds of rifles on the curbs into the gutters and then run over them with his tank, the Germans had run away and left their weapons behind at that point. Soon after that they liberated the Death Camp at Ebensee, Australia. Read about that, horrifying. Dad never talked about it, and didn’t write about it in his memoir. Another tank commander told me only teenagers were alive. He gave one a piece of bread. The kid took a bite and dropped dead. They figured out they could only give them ice chips for hours, then water, then food.
Be careful with that. IIRC the decockers on those were unreliable and the pistol might discharge on using the decocker. A friend had one thus that his father had ended up with after WWII. His dad wasn’t anywhere near infantry combat, he was a PBY pilot scouting for German submarines, but somehow he ended up with a P38.