![]() Relatively few examples which we find in the US today can be considered as valid GI bringbacks from the war. As expected, some of these specimens can be quite roughly machined and/or poorly assembled. Since the Russian Army overran Spreewerk in April 1945, many of the Zero Series pistols were still at the factory and could not be delivered. ![]() As these pistols were not accepted for the military with the usual Eagle/88 Spreewerk stamp, a 'U-stamp' was applied to denote testing and acceptance most likely for the Volkssturm. ![]() Orders went out to the arsenals in late 1944 and early 1945 to assemble as many firearms as possible to arm the Volkssturm, or people's army, gathered together with any able bodied male from teenagers to senior citizens.Īt the Spreewerk arsenal in Grottau, Czechoslovakia, the P.38 pistols known as the Zero Series (serial numbers all begin with a zero, 01 - 08000 range) began production in March and April of 1945 with parts which were mostly already in inventory and/or previously rejected. Nearing the end of WWII, the Allies were closing in on Berlin and other Nazi controlled areas. ![]()
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