This rare RSHA/SS issued pistol just came out of the woodwork. In 95+% very sharp condition, with 1 factory original matching numbered magazine, we have a rare and highly sought after SS issue Walther PPK pistol. This example is the very desirable “K suffix”, type 4 variant which was produced in 1939. According to our colleague Tom Whitman in his excellent book on these pistols, this was part of the second contract order in 1939, and it is likely that this group of pistols were sent into Poland in 1939 with the SS Special Action Squads (Einsatz Gruppen).
These very specially marked pistols were procured to arm the RSHA/Gestapo and SS Police and Security units that streamed into Poland right after the invasion in 1939 to liquidate intellectuals and other perceived enemies of the Reich in order to pacify and terrorize the population. In 1941 these units moved into Russia to continue the slaughter. The nefarious past of these pistols has made them highly sought after by both collectors and students of history and they are among the most significant firearm/artifacts of the era. These pistols with spine numbered mags and numbered slides were only identified as SS issue in the late 1990’s when archival records in Germany were discovered that identified their issue to and use by the Reichs Security Apparatus. Certainly, the most sought after and fiendishly collected Walther Pistol there is.
