Was the Mauser C96 carbine used at all in WW2?

And I mean an airsoft one just to clear that up.

some SS officers carried them, only in pistol form though

I saw somewhere that some artillerymen carried them. I'm not quite sure though...

Since all Mauser c96 pistols had the stock attachment groove on the rear of the handgrip as standard they could all be used as carbines. Also since at least 150,000 of them were rechambered for 9mm parrabellum ammo by order of the German Government, I'd hardly call them rarely issued!

On the other hand if you are talking about the airsoft gun that is called a "C96 Carbine" or the "Box-Cannon" it is safe to say that none at all were ever issued to German troops in WW2. (Not quite the same as "never used").

This particular gun is based on a very limited production run of a customised Mauser M712 Schnellfeuer. These were not produced as part of a military contract and would only be seen in service if they had been bought as a private purchase firearm by a Military Officer.
The normal detatchable stock M712 was however issued in Germany, primarily to Waffen SS units. Not mainly to officers but to personell whose combat role prevented them from carrying a rifle, eg. gunners, drivers, signallers etc.

The C96 was mildly popular as a private purchase firearm by British officers, and extensively used by Soviet, Spanish and Chinese forces.

BTW. the C96 was a semi-automatic weapon with a fixed magazine loaded from stripper clips. The M712 was a select fire, both semi and full auto, weapon loaded from detatchable 10 or 20 round box magazines with a rate-of-fire of 1000 rounds per minute!.

I've seen the C96 used several times. By tankers, propagandaists, officers, etc..

Oh I can't find any at the moment. I study WWII pretty much every day (I am a guide too) and look trough several new pictures a day. Seeing the C96 is quite rare, but I see it every now and then.

This thread is about the carbine not the pistol. Yes I've seen those kinds of pics before. You can find Russian and Chinese pic aswell. But "13yearsold" wanted to know about the carbine. Do you have any shots of those? Hope I'm not coming off as a harda*s but that was the original question.

What about clubs can I just use it as a club as suggested?

It was not an issue weapon, no. But how do you know absolutely no German military personell ever used it trough six years of war? Heck, many civillian weapons were used by military personell..

-Huxy

just to add fuel to the fire...

Volkstrum? Would they not "acquire" any weapon necessary to fight the red menace? Would it work in such circumstances?

Yeah, I know, I understand that. What about stolen...tho the rarity would counter that.

I'd go with a k98 in any case for German weapon of any impression. They are readily available and actually more historical.

There were Volksturm groups that were better equipped than most other military divisions. Volksturm used any weapon you can imagine, and even had own Volksturm weapons manufactured.

No, now I was talking about regular military issue weapons. But I can easily imagine myself some guy during the war bringing his own C96 once... Why not? You have no proof for it, nor against it. It's a grey zone.

If it was an issue weapon, it would be documented yes. There was even an officer on the eastern front, northern sector who used a flintlock pistol. This isn't mentioned in any german documents, because there is really nothing to mention.
As said, so far there are no proof for or against the Carbine ever being used by a human serving in the German military forces 1939-1945.