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Polish gew 98

While a judgement call, I decided to move this to the Interwar-Republican era, more appropriate due to its largely Polish characteristics, and Polish rifles have a following all their own, - probably the most interesting military rifles after Germany's.. historically, economics and political also.

This variation is the most common of the Polish reworks of former German rifles; basically there were three variations, most common these Radom builds, the second the Z-builds, basically ordnance depots, zbrojownia John Wall and the MRJ article designated, means depot or sub-armory (supposedly); the last are totally unattributed, German markings largely intact, but not triangled-Z or FBR.

Very little info regarding Polish rifles are in English, a couple articles were written for the MRJ in the late 1990's, by Polish speaking collectors, some good material, but both are overviews of Polish rifles in general. York covers some related subjects, but nothing directly. They say Polish is a very difficult language to learn, - one of the causes for German non-assimilation in the new Poland (like with America, new immigrants or older immigrants rarely adopt their hosts language, it is the second generations that assimilate, - unfortunately the Poles weren't very patient with this process, - in reality they wanted the German private property, the best land in western Poland and typically owned by German "Poles"), and as English is so similar to German, I suspect we would find it equally disagreeable!
 

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