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* {{flag|Algeria}}: Used by the [[National Liberation Army (Algeria)|National Liberation Army]], bought from Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia{{sfn|Grant|2018|p=57}}
* {{flag|Australia}}: Used captured examples in the [[North African campaign]] of World War II<ref name=":2">{{Cite book|last=Rottman|first=Gordon|title=The Big Book of Gun Trivia: Everything You Want to Know, Don't Want to Know, and Don't Know You Need to Know|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|year=2013|pages=32}}</ref>
* {{flag|Austria}}: Armed forces used Lugers after 1945, supplied from the French-controlled Mauser factory<ref name="WalterJ">{{cite book|last=Walter|first=John|title=Luger Book: The Encyclopedia of the Borchardt and Borchardt-Luger Handguns, 1885–1985|publisher=Arms & Armour|year=1991|isbn=978-0-85368-886-0|location=London, UK|page=66}}</ref>
* {{flag|Bolivia}}:<ref name="WalterJ" /> delivered from 1912 and used during the [[Chaco War]]<ref name="Chaco">{{cite book|author=Alejandro de Quesada|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dTm3CwAAQBAJ|title=The Chaco War 1932-35: South America's greatest modern conflict|date=20 November 2011|publisher=Osprey Publishing|isbn=978-1-84908-901-2|page=23}}</ref>
* {{flag|Brazil}}: The 7.65 model 1900 Luger was adopted in 1906 after navy trials, but purchases failed to materialize due to problems in the economy. In 1908 the improved 1906 model in 7.65 was ordered by the army. The Lugers were delivered to Brazil in 1910 and issued primarily to military officers; following a 1919 law a number of those were lent to police forces.<ref name="WAL" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=The Luger of the Tropics |url=https://www.americanrifleman.org/content/the-luger-of-the-tropics/ |access-date=2023-07-05 |website=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Military and police handgun cartridges of Brazil. - Free Online Library |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Military+and+police+handgun+cartridges+of+Brazil.-a0248661694 |access-date=2023-07-10 |website=www.thefreelibrary.com}}</ref><ref name="Brazil''" />
* {{Flag|Canada}}: 1900 commercial model bought for trials<ref name=":4">Davis, Aaron, ''The Standard Catalog of Luger'', Gun Digest Books, {{ISBN|9780896894112}} (2006) p. 36</ref>
* {{Flag|Chile}}: 1900 commercial model bought for trials<ref name=":4" />
* {{Flag|Czechoslovakia|1920}}:The Luger was in use with the Czechoslovak military after the declaration of independence in 1919<ref>{{Cite web |title=Czechoslovak Weapons of World War II: part 1: Czechoslovakia was well-armed and fortified before World War II, but appeasers in Britain and France pulled the rug out, making "Munich" a synonym for betrayal. - Free Online Library |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Czechoslovak+Weapons+of+World+War+II:+part+1:+Czechoslovakia+was...-a0501831675 |access-date=2022-12-18 |website=www.thefreelibrary.com}}</ref>
* {{flag|Kingdom of Bulgaria}}:<ref name="Miller">{{cite book|last=Miller|first=David|title=Fighting Men of World War II, Volume I: Axis Forces — Uniforms, Equipment, and Weapons|publisher=Stackpole Books|year=2007|isbn=978-0-8117-0277-5|page=369}}</ref> Three types of pistols were purchased from DWM.: The 7,65mm obrazetz 1903 (Old Model) was acquired in comparatively small numbers in 1903-4 and featured the distinctively cutaway toggle grips and a 4.75-inch barrel. The 7,65mm Obrazetz 1908 (New Model) was supplied between 1908 and 1909, and had flat-face checkered toggles; around 1,500 were ordered. The 9mm obrazetz 1911, was a 9mm pistol with a 3.9-inch barrel similar to the German Pistole 08 but lacking a grip safety, stock lug and with a lanyard loop on the lower left side of the butt;  around 10,000 were ordered.  After the Second Balkan War many of the 7,65mm Lugers were re-barreled to 9mm<ref>{{Cite web |title=BULGARIAN SMALL ARMS OF WORLD WAR II, PART I: SOME OLD AND SOME NEW. - Free Online Library |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/BULGARIAN+SMALL+ARMS+OF+WORLD+WAR+II,+PART+I:+SOME+OLD+AND+SOME+NEW.-a0583655275 |access-date=2022-12-19 |website=www.thefreelibrary.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Jowett |first=Philip |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/842879929 |title=Armies of the Balkan Wars 1912-13 : the priming charge for the Great War. |date=2012 |publisher=Osprey Publishing |isbn=978-1-299-58155-5 |oclc=842879929}}</ref>
* {{flag|Republic of China (1912–1949)|name=Republic of China}}: Used by [[Zhang Zuolin|Chang Tso-lin's]] warlord army.<ref>{{cite book|last=Jowett|first=Philip|url=https://archive.org/details/chinesewarlordar00jowe|title=Chinese Warlord Armies 1911–30|publisher=Osprey Publishing Ltd.|year=2010|isbn=978-1-84908-402-4|location=Oxford, UK|page=[https://archive.org/details/chinesewarlordar00jowe/page/n11 21]|url-access=limited}}</ref> 
* {{flag|Democratic Republic of Georgia}}: Mainly issued to officers.<ref>{{Cite web|title=მსუბუქი შეიარაღება|url=https://history.mod.gov.ge/ge/page/39/msubuqi-sheiarageba|access-date=2021-05-04|website=history.mod.gov.ge}}</ref>
* {{flag|Empire of Japan}}: Used Luger pistols in a semi-official capacity taken from disarmed [[Royal Netherlands East Indies Army|Dutch forces in Indonesia]].<ref name="Luger" /><ref>{{Cite book|last=Cormack|first=A.J.R.|title=The Luger|publisher=Profile Publications Ltd.|year=1972|pages=57}}</ref>
* {{flag|Finland}}: Small numbers of  P08 Lugers acquired by [[Jäger Movement|Jägers]] and the [[Whites (Finland)|Finnish White Army]] during the civil war; including 100 artillery lugers. 7.65 pistols with 95mm and 98mm barrels were ordered from DWM and designated m/23 pistol; 2,000 were delivered in 1922 and a further 2,000  in 1923, by 1929 the army had 8,000 m/23 pistols. During the Winter War those pistols were converted to use 9mm ammunition.<ref name="davis2006">{{cite book|last=Davis|first=Aaron|title=Standard Catalog of Luger|publisher=Gun Digest Books|year=2006|isbn=0-89689-411-8|edition=2nd}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=The Luger in Finland |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vTynFRdBlA |access-date=2024-01-02 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=FINNISH ARMY 1918 - 1945: REVOLVERS & PISTOLS PART 1 |url=https://www.jaegerplatoon.net/PISTOLS1.htm |access-date=2024-01-02 |website=www.jaegerplatoon.net}}</ref>
* {{flag|France}}: The French occupied and operated the Mauser factory 1945–46, then seized remaining Mauser parts stocks to assemble approximately 4,000 Luger pistols for French forces<ref name="WalterJ" />
* {{flag|Germany}}<ref name="miller2001">{{Cite book|last=Miller|first=David|title=The Illustrated Directory of 20th Century Guns|publisher=Salamander Books Ltd|year=2001|isbn=1-84065-245-4}}</ref>
** {{flag|German Empire}}<ref name="bishop2002" />
** {{flag|Weimar Republic}}<ref name="bishop2002" />
** {{flag|Nazi Germany}}<ref name="bishop2002" />
** {{flag|East Germany}}: Used until the 1960s by the [[Volkspolizei]]{{sfn|Grant|2018|p=59}} and [[Stasi]] agents. A small number were sold abroad to Ethiopia in the 1980s.<ref name="Luger" /><ref>{{Citation |title=Lugers, Lugers and Lugers. Detailed description of the most recent import of German P08 pistols. |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLFQFb4fTw8 |access-date=2023-09-06 |language=en}}</ref>
* {{flag|Grenada}}<ref>{{Cite web |last=jwh1975 |date=2015-10-18 |title=Urgent Fury 1983: WWII weapons encountered |url=https://wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com/2015/10/18/urgent-fury-1983-wwii-weapons-encountered/ |access-date=2023-07-04 |website=wwiiafterwwii |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite web |title=Historical Breechloading Smallarms Association |url=https://hbsa-uk.org/knowledge-and-research/hbsa-dvd-index-and-content/hbsa-ww1-commemorative-film/p08-lang-artillery-luger-9mm-self-loading-pistol/ |access-date=2023-07-04 |website=Historical Breechloading Smallarms Association |language=en-GB}}</ref>
* {{flag|Indonesia}}: Almost 14,000 Dutch KNIL M.11 Lugers were in Indonesia before the [[Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies]]. As such, the Luger was widely used during the [[Indonesian National Revolution]]. General [[Sudirman]] is known to have personally carried an M.11.<ref>KNIL-wapens in Indonesische musea (KNIL weapons in Indonesian museums), D.W. Staat, SAM Wapenmagazine 85, p.51 (In Dutch)</ref>
* {{flag|Italian Social Republic}}: Supplied to forces collaborating with Germany in northern Italy.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Riccio |first1=Ralph |title=Italian small arms of the first & second world wars |date=2013 |publisher=Schiffer Publishing |isbn=9780764345838 |pages=163}}</ref>
* {{flagicon image|Naval flag of Iran 1933-1980.svg}} [[Pahlavi dynasty|Imperial State of Iran]]<ref name="Luger" />
* {{Flag|Latvia}}: Purchased less than 1,000 between 1936 and 1939.<ref>Davis, Aaron, ''The Standard Catalog of Luger'', Gun Digest Books, {{ISBN|9780896894112}} (2006) p. 182</ref>
* {{flag|Libya}}<ref>{{cite web|author=Grey Tiger|date=2015|title=World Infantry Weapons: Libya|url=https://sites.google.com/site/worldinventory/wiw_africa/wiw_af_libya|access-date=13 December 2017|publisher=WorldInventory|via=[[Google Sites]]|archive-date=5 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161005200329/https://sites.google.com/site/worldinventory/wiw_africa/wiw_af_libya|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* {{Flag|Lithuania}}<ref>{{Cite book|last=Görtz|first=Joachim|title=The Borchardt & Luger Automatic Pistols: A Technical History for Collectors from C93 to P.08|pages=537}}</ref>
* {{Flag|Luxemburg}}:1900 commercial model bought for trials<ref name=":4" />
* {{Flag|Mexico}}<ref name="DAV" />
* {{flag|Netherlands}}: Dutch arms factories made Lugers in 1912 for use by the [[Royal Netherlands East Indies Army|Dutch East Indies Army]].<ref name="WalterJ" /> Other contracts were completed for the Dutch Navy commencing in 1923, and the Dutch Air Force in 1928
* {{Flag|New Zealand}}: Captured P08 Lugers were carried unofficially by some servicemen during WWI and WWII. At the end of WWI many captured Lugers were brought to New Zealand and were surrendered under amnesty following the 1920 Arms Act which outlawed the civilian possession of 'semi‐automatic pistols'. In 1942 the surrendered P08s held in Government stores were issued to RNZAF officers in the Aerodrome Defence Squadrons.<ref>{{Cite web |title=NZ Arms Register- Luger Pistol |url=http://www.armsregister.com/arms_register/arms_register_documents/nzar_377_luger_pistol.pdf}}</ref>
* {{Flag|Norway}}: In use from 1945 and phased out in 1987.<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-nb_digibok_2007091104011|title=Hæren etter Annen verdenskrig: 1945–1990|publisher=Fabritius|year=1990|isbn=8290545169|location=Oslo|page=563|language=no|trans-title=The Army of the Second World War: 1945–1990}}</ref>
* {{flag|Palestine}}: the [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] received P08s from East Germany{{sfn|Grant|2018|p=59}}
* {{flag|Portugal}}: Around 1901, a commission tested various semiautomatic pistols,  the 7.65 model 1900 Luger was considered superior. No immediate decision was taken and in 1907 another commission decided on the Luger. That same year 50 Model 1906 commercial pistols were bought for an expedition into Cuamato territory in Angola. In 1908, between 3.500 to 5.000 model 1906 pistols in 7.65 were delivered. In 1910 the navy bought 650 Lugers in 9mm. In 1935 564 Lugers in 7.65 were bought for the National Republican Guard. In 1942 4.500 P08 Lugers were purchased<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Telo|first1=António José|title=Armamento do Exército Português, Vol.I – Armamento Ligeiro|last2=Álvares|first2=Mário|publisher=Prefácio|year=2004|isbn=972-8816-43-X|location=Lisbon|pages=100–103|language=pt|trans-title=Armament of the Portuguese Army, Vol.I – Light Armament}}</ref><ref name="Luger article">{{cite web|last=Arnold|first=David W.|date=11 November 2010|title=Classic Handguns of the 20th Century: The P.08 German Luger|url=http://www.handgunsmag.com/reviews/featured_handguns_po8_luger/|access-date=12 May 2017|website=Handguns}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=2012-03-27 |title=:: Revista Militar ::-Revistas - As Indústrias Militares e As Armas de Fogo |url=http://www.revistamilitar.pt/modules/articles/article.php?id=528 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120327041640/http://www.revistamilitar.pt/modules/articles/article.php?id=528 |archive-date=27 March 2012 |access-date=2022-12-29}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>
* {{flag|Romania}}<ref name=":5" /><ref>{{Citation |title=L |date=2000-12-31 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110956863.119 |work=International Directory of Libraries for the Blind |pages=119–122 |access-date=2023-07-04 |publisher=DE GRUYTER SAUR|doi=10.1515/9783110956863.119 |isbn=978-3-598-21816-3 }}</ref>
* {{flag|Russia|name=Russian Empire}}: 9mm Lugers were authorized as a sidearm in 1907; small amounts were privately purchased by officers.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Russian/Soviet: military handguns part 1 from Lefaucheux to Luger. - Free Online Library |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Russian/Soviet:+military+handguns+part+1+from+Lefaucheux+to+Luger.-a0323975952 |access-date=2022-12-16 |website=www.thefreelibrary.com}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title=Small Arms of WWI Primer 185: Foreign 1911s |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aYmsNoPwNM |access-date=2024-01-22 |language=en}}</ref>
* {{flag|Spain|1936}}<ref name="davis2006" />
* {{flag|Soviet Union}}: Used by the Red Army during the civil war;<ref>{{Cite journal |title=US Army, Report, Commanders' Conference, October 2, 1952, Top Secret, NARA. |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004346673.wmdo-02_462 |access-date=2022-12-30 |website=Weapons of Mass Destruction|doi=10.1163/9789004346673.wmdo-02_462 }}</ref> in September 1929, an agreement was signed under which about 300 pistols were delivered from the Weimar Republic, their assembly was carried out at the Sestroretsk arms factory.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2007-05-24 |title="ПАРАБЕЛЛУМ" Легендарный пистолет |url=http://www.weapon.df.ru/luger/Index.html |access-date=2022-12-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070524130636/http://www.weapon.df.ru/luger/Index.html |archive-date=24 May 2007 }}</ref> stored captured P08s but never used in combat{{sfn|Grant|2018|p=59}}
* {{flag|Sweden|1923}}<ref name="DAV" />
* {{flag|Switzerland}}: The Swiss Army was the first to adopt the Luger. 1900–1950<ref name="davis2006" />
* {{flag|Turkey}}<ref name="Luger article" />
* {{flag|Thailand}}{{sfn|Grant|2018|p=28}}
* {{flag|United Kingdom}}: used by [[Special Operations Executive]]{{sfn|Grant|2018|p=69}}
* {{flag|United States}}:<ref name="DAV" /> The U.S. Ordnance Board purchased 1,000 Model 1900 7.65mm pistols under an official military contract order in 1901 and issued them to active duty cavalry troops for field testing. Most were distributed to U.S. Cavalry troops involved in police actions in the Philippines and Cuba. As the American Cavalry troops had used .45 and .38 revolvers for over 30 years, the small caliber, complex Luger, was viewed with some suspicion and not readily accepted. There were complaints as to small caliber, safety while riding from horseback, and unreliable action. As a result of these reports 50 Lugers in caliber 9mm were briefly tested by the Army in 1904-1906 and three Lugers in .45 caliber were tested in 1907. The Luger was rejected by the U.S. Army in favor of the Colt M1911. In 1905-1907 the Springfield Armory called in most of the M1900 Test Lugers.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Meadows |first=Scott |title=U.S. Military Automatic Pistols 1920 - 1945 |year=2010 |pages=386}}</ref>

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