The German Police, like many German organizations of WW2, were paramilitary in nature. Their duties mainly consisted of establishing security and maintaining order, and their purview extended from bustling cities to vast countryside in both Germany and occupied areas. They checked wehrpasses, soldbuchs, and individual civilian documents, verifying the identity of anyone traveling on German waterways, railways, highways, city streets, and country roads, and some German Field Police units were also deployed in combat. German policemen wore elegant long dress bayonets as a mark of rank and status, as well as a last line of personal defense. These featured elegant genuine stag handle scales badged with a small German Police insignia in inverted fashion at the right side, a beautiful “eagle head” embellished pommel, and an “oak leaves” embellished guard. Some were slotted with a mortise and “locking lug” attachment and could actually fit onto a rifle, while others were only meant to be worn as a side arm knife. These bayonets were highly prized war souvenirs among US Army troops in the ETO. This German WW2 WKC Berlin Municipal Police Stag Handle Long Dress Bayonet is in Very Good Condition, with a few small chips in the upper blade edge, a few more small chips in the middle blade edge, some scattered finish abrading and spot patina at each side of the blade, the organizational/regimental markings having been purposely, neatly ground away from the left side of the guard, a deep crack in the upper left handle scale, another deep crack in the lower right handle scale, some loosening to the German Police insignia on the middle right handle scale, and with some scattered age wear evident. Most interestingly, it features a 13” bright chrome plated full length fullered spearpoint blade, sports beautiful stag handle scales with elegant natural stippling secured by two nickel silver pins and with the classic small German Police insignia affixed in inverted fashion at the right side, and is stamped vertically at the ricasso with its maker, the famous “WEYERSBERG / KIRSCHBAUM & CIE / SOLINGEN”, along with their iconic “knight’s head” logo marked at the reverse ricasso. The bayonet carries a sunburst over the letter “K” marked at the lower blade spine, denoting a cutdown Prussian long bayonet, and thus distinguishing it as an early Nazi piece, as well as the alphanumeric series “B38” stamped at the lower blade spine, with the “B” almost certainly standing for Berlin. It boasts the traditional bright nickel plated “eagle head” embellished pommel, “oak leaves” embellished quillon with downturned end, and solid tang without a mortise, and is complete with the original German WW2 Berlin Municipal Police Brown Leather Scabbard in Very Good Condition, with some scratching and flaking to the throat, a spot dent in the lower back end tip, some light scratching, darkening, and overall downward bending to the leather body, and with some scattered age wear evident. Most interestingly, it bears the original, matching bright nickel plated throat with frog stud and “ball” end tip, exhibits “S.B. 10015.” stamped at the back throat, with the acronym standing for Schutzpolizei (Municipal Police) Berlin, and the set is a fine example of a very rare, original German WW2 WKC Berlin Municipal Police Stag Handle Long Dress Bayonet.