Beholla pistol

The Beholla was a German blowback semi-automatic pistol developed by the firm of Becker and Hollander and issued to German forces in the First World War, where it served as a secondary military sidearm of the Imperial German Army. It was made from 1915 until 1918, and about 45,000 were produced. It fired the 7.65 mm Browning cartridge, also known as .32 ACP, from a seven-round detachable box magazine. After the war the firm of Waffenfabrik August Menz of Suhl kept building the design under the name Menta, and from 1921 to 1932 Franz Stock Maschinenbau und Werkzeugfabrik made an improved version that police agencies in Germany and Austria used. The pistol also reached the armed services of a long list of other states, including Lithuania, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire, Finland and the Soviet Union, where railway guards carried it during the Second World War.