Waffen SS privates from the 5th SS Panzer Division firing several Luger P08 during winter training. The Pistole Parabellum 1908, widely known as the Luger P08 was a semi-automatic pistol first designed by Georg J. Luger in 1898 and was first used by the Swiss army in May 1900, although it was later used in greater scale by Germany during World War I and World War II, along with the interwar Weimar Republic and the postwar East German Volkspolizei, stopping its production in 1942, when the Walther P38 entering in production in 1938. The cost of a Luger was of $13 or 32 RM (approximately $200 or 500 RM adjusting inflation) Because of its association with Nazi Germany, the pistol has been used in fictional works by many villainous characters over the past several decades.