In September 1983, the Israeli citizen Ephraim Halpern was murdered in Hamburg. The murder weapon was a Wehrmacht gun P38 with the serial number "80 10 e". The gun was found together with two magazines in a trash bin. Police in Hamburg asks who is in possession of a Wehrmacht pistol P38 with a nearby serial number.
As of December 2017, the Ludwigsburg Central for solving National Socialist crimes has had no lists of Wehrmacht gun serial numbers.
Ephraim Halpern supposedly was involved with secret services and gun deals, but it is unclear if this is true. What is known is that he worked for the SGH Spezial Gerätebau in Hamburg, a daughter of the Tadiran Isräl Electronics Ltd., Tel Aviv. The company is specialized in electronics and weapons, having fulfilled contacts for the (West) German Army "Bundeswehr". Prior to leading this business, Halpern was a Major of the Israeli Air Force.
Halpern likely worked for the MOSSAD. He might have been killed as a retribution for the killing of Saki El Selou. A few weeks prior to his murder he also met with arms dealers in Vienna, according to a 2017 book "The Secret War Against The Jews" by John Loftus and Mark Aarons.
The possibility exists that this is one of the last nazi crimes in Germany, so if you are able to provide any information, please contact the police in Hamburg. If this is not a nazi crime, it might be related to international terrorism.
Address: Caffamacherreihe 4, 20355 Hamburg, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)40 428670777
Do not contact me (this might put my life into danger) nor post in the comments but directly contact the police. You likely can also contact your local police and they will forward the information to Hamburg. If it is true that Halpern is a former MOSSAD agent, you might also want to contact the police in Israel.
Address: Public Complaints Unit, 91 Herzl Street, The Government Complex Building, Ramla 7243003, Israel
Email:
tlunot@police.gov.il
(Some of the information here is taken by the internet and marked as speculative as far as the sources might not be reliable. Other information is taken from the German TV show "Aktenzeichen XY... ungelöst" of 11 May 1984. As this might be a nazi crime, I have a personal ethical interest that the perpetrators are caught.)
EDIT, 15 July 2019:
Maybe it is helpful to link to sources:
SGH Spezial Gerätebau, Germany
"The Secret War against the Jews", allegation of meeting with arms dealers
Other links that were not used back then as sources:
Probably a German conspiracy theory publication, with newspaper clipping on the last page
(Important info from there: "Kommando 17. September", a Palestinean terror organisation, says they killed Halpern, he was 37 years old, he supposedly - according to the terrorists - was a former Israeli Air Force officer and was killed in front of his apartment - source: dpa - no mention of where they'd have gotten the gun from, so that might be a false confession)
I don't remember what other sources I did or didn't use. Should have written them down back then. But most info not found there or in "Aktenzeichen XY" is to be doubted.
EDIT, 15 July 2019:
Maybe it is helpful to link to sources:
SGH Spezial Gerätebau, Germany
"The Secret War against the Jews", allegation of meeting with arms dealers
Other links that were not used back then as sources:
Probably a German conspiracy theory publication, with newspaper clipping on the last page
(Important info from there: "Kommando 17. September", a Palestinean terror organisation, says they killed Halpern, he was 37 years old, he supposedly - according to the terrorists - was a former Israeli Air Force officer and was killed in front of his apartment - source: dpa - no mention of where they'd have gotten the gun from, so that might be a false confession)
I don't remember what other sources I did or didn't use. Should have written them down back then. But most info not found there or in "Aktenzeichen XY" is to be doubted.
