what happened to the germans firarms and military equipment after they lost the war

[dakota port]

i was thinking about how many guns and military vehicles germany had in the war, and what happened to it all?

i see examples in museums and in private collections, but not enough to even account for the mass produced vehicles just rusting away if they ran out of gas or were abandoned where they were at after the loss as

i mean they made alot of pistols durign that time but they are so rare that they cost $1000 at the store now

 

[57tr6]

Scrapped out.....steel was in high demand after the war for rebuilding.

 

[ugagrad04]

i was thinking about how many guns and military vehicles germany had in the war, and what happened to it all?

i see examples in museums and in private collections, but not enough to even account for the mass produced vehicles just rusting away if they ran out of gas or were abandoned where they were at after the loss as

i mean they made alot of pistols durign that time but they are so rare that they cost $1000 at the store now

You're looking in the wrong places.

 

[Billrube]

They did not have many vehicles or aircraft left that were serviceable at the end of the war. People hated nazi germany and scrapped almost everything that reminded of the war. No one at the time looked at them as historic pieces--they represented death and oppression and were happily destroyed without much fanfare.
Millions of Mausers, Lugers, P38s were captured by Russia, Yugoslavia and the Allies. After the war, the Russians refinished millions and stored them until about 10 years ago when they finally decided WW3 wasn't going to happen and sold most of them to us. The Yugoslavs refinished thousands, Israel was given tens of thousands of mausers and they rebarrelled into 762x51.

The allies dumped millions of axis weapons and US weapons into the ocean at the end of the war.

 

[timbgtm]

Verkäuflich an walmart

 

[Anschutz]

Ja ich kaufe ein P-38 am Wal-Mart jedem wochenende. P-38 sind billig am Walmart.

 

[philwil68]

Ja ich kaufe ein P-38 am Wal-Mart jedem wochenende. P-38 sind billig am Walmart.

You saw a p38 at Wally world last weekend? Dayum

 

[Hyrb]

They beat their weapons into plowshares

and Mercedes and BMW and Porsche and...

 

[Bellman2]

Cousin that served there told me that when the germans were disarmed, we put housands of weapons in a line and ran tanks over them. If so, what a waste.