1980’s however was a strange time for both sides and NATO and USSR were losing allies left and right and neither side wanted to engage in conflict so both sides tried to downsize their military while also trying to scare the other side.
Hermann Goering' gold-plated handgun up for aution
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This was the handgun he handed over duting his capture.
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Nice.
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Interesting that it’s a Walther PPK, the type of gun that later served as James Bond’s signature firearm in most of the movies.
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Goering liked a lot of ‘bling’. Very nice handgun.
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There’s a scene in the movie Across the Pacific in which Sydney Greenstreet shows his pistol (I think it’s a 38-caliber gun) to Humphrey Bogart, who puts his Colt 45 pistol alongside Greenstreet’s and comments, “Mine’s bigger than yours.”
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