SVT40's with FAKE Nazi Markings

I'd be surprised if they destroyed serviceable rifles. The German Army had a penchant for making do with next to nothing, and making do when there was no man power, weaponry or ammo to do it.

Case in point, in Normandy they deployed captured French tanks with grafted on German 105mm guns as tank destroyers.
 
I'd be surprised if they destroyed serviceable rifles. The German Army had a penchant for making do with next to nothing, and making do when there was no man power, weaponry or ammo to do it.

Case in point, in Normandy they deployed captured French tanks with grafted on German 105mm guns as tank destroyers.

True but what they lacked most was manpower & who wants to devote said manpower to watching a pile of rifles?
 
They began faking and reproducing things the second Germany capitulated for the occupying forces to take home as trophies. A fake from June 1945 is still a fake regardless of age. Prime example is SS helmet covers that were cut from genuine zeltbahns right after the war. Genuine material and period stitching but a repro no matter which way you look at it.
 
By "they" he means the germans themselves. There was a thriving market in occupied Germany until 1948 or so when most GI's finally went home.

It then re-flared-up in 1991.
 
By "they" he means the germans themselves. There was a thriving market in occupied Germany until 1948 or so when most GI's finally went home.

It then re-flared-up in 1991.

I can see that happening but I can't see occupied Germans humping svt40. If that happened it happen post 91. I can see the Ukranians humping anything for cash but to stamp & reblue seems extreme.
 
Walt Disney was faking German WW1 Camo Helmets in WW1 behind the enemy lines.

The German Snipers Helmets were Painted in Camo, and being an artist, when he sold them, he could make something like 10 to 15 times the regular amount of a plain WW1 German Helmet because everyone wanted a Sniper Helmet to take back home.

Time to Wake up, Open your Eyes and Smell the Coffee! Nothing should surprise you anymore. When something is too good to be true, it usually is...
 
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