Armament crews of the Luftwaffe

P08 Parabellum / Luger 

The name comes from the Latin sentence: "Si vis pacem, para bellum" - if you want peace, prepare for war :). Herman Goering personally prefered and insisted on Lugers for the Luftwaffe. Reiclzsmarshall decided in 1934 or thereabouts that his Luftwaffe would be armed with Lugers to be supplied by the Heinrich Kriegholf firm of Suhl, in which he had either a personal or a financial interest. KrieghofT acquired some of the still plentiful spare parts left over from 1918, and cheerfully
went to work assembling Parabellums.