Important article on the Radom VIS

[Squadron303]

Important article regarding the Radom VIS, published in the magazine American Rifleman September 2016.

Made by Unwilling Hands, by Paul Slusarz
P74
"Germany put the Radom pistol back into production after Poland fell in 1939. A Jewish survivor of the Holocaust who worked in the factory tells the story"

 

[Squadron303]

Here is the article.

http://ww w.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/nra/ar_201609/

Article is property of author and American Rifleman

 

[Steve1987]

Interesting article. Thanks for posting, I hadn't seen it yet. Interesting that they were making wooden boxes for the pistols, I wonder if any still exist?

Regards,
-Steve

 

[Nyles]

Interesting. Anyone ever heard of exported Radoms before? Or have any idea what the cubes were?

 

[Squadron303]

Interesting article. Thanks for posting, I hadn't seen it yet. Interesting that they were making wooden boxes for the pistols, I wonder if any still exist?

Regards,
-Steve

No wooden boxes have surfaced.

Guess is that if it wasn't nailed down post-war, it became firewood. I would pay just to see one.
In fact, I don't believe the VIS collecting community even knew about the boxes prior to the survivor, Dora Zaidenweber, speaking about her experiences.

 

[Squadron303]

Interesting. Anyone ever heard of exported Radoms before? Or have any idea what the cubes were?

Exported? Do you mean cloned? Cloned pistols were known to exist, but I don't believe one has ever been identified. No two of the same serial numbers have been identified.

I have no idea what the golden cubes could be.

 

[Nyles]

Exported? Do you mean cloned? Cloned pistols were known to exist, but I don't believe one has ever been identified. No two of the same serial numbers have been identified.

I have no idea what the golden cubes could be.

No, I mean exported as she says in the interview. She could certainly be wrong about them being for export but a lined, polished wooden box seems unlikely to be for issue.

 

[Squadron303]

Without putting words in her mouth, I don't think she means export in the sense we mean it. They were exported out to Austria for completion and then delivered wherever they were needed (Kreigsmarine, Norway, Germany, etc).

 

[Kevt28]

Thanks Squadron, very interesting article.

 

[Horilka]

That's interesting article, thanks for posting.

 

[Cocked&Locked]

i have a german stamped radom...kinda changes the way I think about it when i look at it.

 

[micromind]

Interesting article. Thanks for posting, I hadn't seen it yet. Interesting that they were making wooden boxes for the pistols, I wonder if any still exist?

Regards,
-Steve

ID like to see one, one has to be around somewhere.