Articles of the Gazette

A russion Tokarev M1940 issued to the SS. (Gazette 16 - Article 6)

The first time I heard about this bayonet was when I read Mike Welser’s book : « Reichswehr and Wehrmacht bayonets 1920-1945 ». I was very impressed by this new way to approach the bayonet collecting and by the informations given by this book, very modest for the fist edition but more developed for the second edition. And my collecting way was completely changed by this discovery.
In Mike’s study it is stated that some Russian Tokarev M1940 bayonets bad been captured and reissued by the German troops during the World War Two.
This bayonet is thought as very rare. I don’t speak of the original, Russian, bayonet of but the one used by the German troops. How can we recognize it ? ...