By war's end approx, 200000 Model PPs has seen service in German Police and military service since 1929. One expert on German pistol use has estimated that the German Armed forces may have procured as many as 84000(.hmmmm, this number sounds familiar) Model PPs during the war. Total PP production from 1929 to 1945 is estimated at half a million. In 1938 when they reached one million, they restarted numbering at 10000 P and reached 396000 P by the end of the war. When Walther began its production, PP serial number started at 750000. My source for the following is 'The Walther Handgun Story' by Gene Gangarosa: I thought the OP was speaking of 'Nazi Walther PPs', but even in the same source there are several different numbers: I don't know how one can base production numbers of the PP based on serial numbers considering where the numbering started in 1929 at serial number 750000, restarted at 10000 in 1938 and that the numbering for the PP and PPK were intermingled up to 1938. Do you have a source for your numbers or are you extrapolating(guessing) based on serial number ranges? My source was posted, take it for what it is. Click to expand.My GF, a French model whom I met on the internet, assures me that they can't put anything on the internet that isn't true.
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