Rehbogen was tracked down through a concentration camp paper trail, using documents such as laundry lists "to deduce those persons who worked as guards," Daniel Stenner, a spokesman for the court, told the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle. It was rebuilt adjacent to the original site, and during WW2 it supplied about 25,000 pistols to the German Army in France. The defendant was brought into the courtroom in a wheelchair, and because of his health, the trial is being limited to two hours a day.
#Nazi star pistol serial number#
All these pistols should have the last 3 digits of the serial number on all major component. But, I have encountered some owners with overtly german proofed weapons, so this may be untrue, or inconsistently applied. "He admits to having worked at the camp but denies knowing about any murders there," NPR's Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson reports from Berlin.īecause Rehbogen was under 21 at the time of his alleged crimes, he is being tried at a juvenile court in Münster, Germany. Reportedly, Stars issued to WWII German troops do not carry Nazi proofmarks, the only foreign arms exempted from this requirement. Johann Rehbogen is charged with being an accessory in the murders of several hundred Jewish and Polish prisoners at the Stutthof camp just east of the Gdansk, Poland, in the early 1940s. The one gun you mentioned serial 225849 was a known replacement gun for serial number 219531 that was missing from the lot. If your gun does not fall in that category then it was not sold to the Germans.
#Nazi star pistol serial numbers#
The numbers reported in the beginning thread are the known serial numbers sold to the Germans.
Defendant Johann Rehbogen, a 94-year-old former SS guard, appears at the regional court in Münster, Germany, on Tuesday.Ī 94-year-old former SS guard went on trial Tuesday in a German juvenile court for alleged complicity in the mass murder of hundreds of people at a Nazi concentration camp more than 70 years ago. Your star B is not in the German contract.
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