Hermann Goering's Walther PPK resurfaces.
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And, from the text of the article:
The golden gun ceremoniously handed over by high-ranking Nazi Hermann Goering when he surrendered to a soldier at the end of the Second World War has been revealed in public for the first time.
The famous revolver has come to light 67 years after the SS officer gave it to Lieutenant Jerome Shapiro in a symbolic gesture as he fled from Germany in the final days of the Third Reich.
Yes, I know. Bless their little hearts. They can't help it.
8 comments:
Much as i hate to do this they must have proof read the artical as it now says pistol not revolver.
Dont forget Thats an English Newspaper and we dont have Handguns
over here.
They're British, it's not their fault...
Entirely OT, but if memory serves, you enjoy shipwreck stories...
http://en.rian.ru/video/20120822/175360030.html
They also call Georing an SS officer? WTF Georing was head of the Luftwaffe. All those layers of editors and fact checkers must have been out to lunch.
Spad13
Spad 13: Actually Goering was the head of the SS before Himmler and I think the actual handgun he surrendered was a Smith & Wesson .38, not this PPK. He liked S&W's...
All The Best,
Frank W. James
They need better roofpreaders...
Hmmm..
The irony strikes me - the guy who bought into the whole Aryan "Master Race" thing, surrendered his sidearm to LT Shapiro, who, with a name like that, was probably Jewish.
Same sort of irony when I see a Kar 98k , converted to 7.62 NATO and with the "Shield of David" IDF ownership mark on the receiver and the Waffenamtstempel overstruck by a "6 point star" or simply "x-ed" out.
REgards
GKT
@ajdshootist: they were probably responding to comments.
@BobG: Bless their hearts.
@Soylent Green: Thanks!
@Frank W. James: I knew that at one time, but had forgotten it.
@Old NFO: yep.
@Greg Tag: Ironies abound, don't they? Thanks for visiting!
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