This is in the Resistance Museum in Oslo Norway. May early '30s M98Ks all welded togeather.
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This is in the Resistance Museum in Oslo Norway. May early '30s M98Ks all welded togeather.
What a waste of rifles.
Pat
Very interisting if a bit depreessing. Guess I know why good K98s are scarce.
Ahhhh.... My eyes!! They're burning!!
Yup...that's too bad...
Sacrilege.
I am no historian. I have read the Germans who invaded Norway left many troops there for the entire war. They had all 1930's rifles and MG's. Also heard many VZ-24's where shipped in to arm the troops. Over 300,000 Germans were in Norway in May 1945 when the war ended. It was a huge equipment dump for Norway and they used all of that equipment for over 40 years.
That is immediately inside the front door of the museum at Acres Hus. You walk past it to get into the museum. I was there in the mid 80s. Since there was no one around I left with a half dozen sight hoods and a couple of cleaning rods, figgured I could put them to better use then they were.
I examined that mess closely and I don't believe there was a single 98k that could be salvaged out of that mess without doing a bunch of grinding and reblueing.
Crying shame to collectors, But it was their country that was occupied so they have the right to do as they please with captured equipment. At least they did not melt them down!
Sarge