This in an example of the so called Death's Head (DH) Luger.  This pistol is controversial but

I will relate what my mentor, a long time collector/researcher, told me.

In the late '30, Heinrich Hemmler was given the responsibility for guarding the concentration

camps.  Until that time, the SS had primarily been body guards and used the smaller caliber

hand guns.  So, for the first time, the SS had a need for military grade weapons. The Heer would

not allow the SS to receive any new production K98ks or P.08s but they said the SS could have

some of the WWI era Gew98s and P.08s that had been discarded.  The SS set up a shop to rework those

guns.  The Gew98s became the DH Gew98 reworks.  I have documented those here.  The P.08s

did not receive the same type of rework that the Gew98s did.  They took parts from various P.08s and

assembled functioning examples.  They did not renumber any parts and they did no refinishing.  So, the

DH P.08s will have various grades of finish on the parts and will be mismatched.  The only stamping they

did is a Death's Head that was placed on top of the receiver after it had been scrubbed of the date and they

touched up the blue where it had been scrubbed.