Most of the facilities that had grown up to meet the needs of war were reduced and BERKA carried on with factories in Berlin and Karlsruhe, manufacturing a variety of light metal goods. Under the regime of the Versailles treaty the firm was forced to give up the manufacture of armaments, which had been its core business.

The Berlin-Karlsruher Industrie Werke (BERKA) was founded in 1920 as a successor to the Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken AG, one of Germany's largest munitions firms of the prewar era. 1944 WWII Nazi GERMAN 'SPREEWERKE' cyq P38 Pistol Description. Here is a fantastic example of the Nazi German pistol that was to replace the iconic Luger! This firearm is classified as a Curio & Relic. The left side of the receiver has the serial number 7844 also followed by an m Any information would be greatly appreciated. The serial number 7844 on the slide is followed by an m. The left slide is marked P 38 with the cyq Spreewerke marking. I have a Spreewerke P-38 that I'm trying to find a little more information on.

Spreewerk produced a number of important weapons and components before and during World War II including 280,880 of the Walther P.38 pistol which was the standard service pistol of the German Heer, and the famous 8.8 cm Flakanti-aircraft gun. Metallwarenfabrik Spreewerk GmbH was a German weapons manufacturing company. Serial numbers of this variation always start with a 0, hence the name 0-Series. The 0-Series was the first official P38 variation issued to the German army.This variation is produced between june 1939 and may 1940.

The left slide is marked P 38 with the cyq Spreewerke marking.

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