All very good points - the hobby is filled with presented edged weapons from the NSDAP, from people who weren't even in the military (brothers, wives, etc). Good eye on the dot. Regarding this period after NSDAP, it appears to me as if the etcher believed it to be the end of a sentence. It looks as if the remainder of the inscription reads like the opening or closing saluation of a letter (Mannheim 20 April 1942). To me, the punctuation does seem rather cumbersome, but it is not cause for alarm in my book. Perhaps one of our native German speakers can comment on this.
