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| type = [[Semi-automatic pistol]]
| is_ranged = yes
| service = 19391939–1945 (Nazi PresentGermany) <br /> 1949–present (other countries)
| used_by = See ''[[#Users|Users]]''
| wars = {{ubl|[[World War II]]<ref name="bishop1998"/>|[[Indochina War]]<ref name="Algeria"/>|[[Algerian War]]<ref name="Algeria">{{cite magazine |language=fr |magazine=[[Gazette des Armes]] |issue=220 |date=March 1992 |title=L'armement français en A.F.N. |pages=12–16 |url=http://fr.1001mags.com/parution/gazette-des-armes/numero-220-mars-1992/page-12-13-texte-integral}}</ref>|[[Portuguese Colonial War]]|[[Vietnam War]] (limited)<ref name="wwiiafterwwii"/>|[[The Troubles]]|[[1958 Lebanon crisis]]<ref name="Walter" />|[[Lebanese Civil War]]<ref name="Walter" />|[[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|War in Afghanistan]]|[[Iraqi Civil War (2014–2017)]] (P1)}}
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==Users==
* {{AFG}}: [[Afghan National Police]] received 10,000 P1s after the [[United States invasion of Afghanistan|fall of the Taliban]]<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P4N9AgAAQBAJ |title=Afghanistan, Arms and Conflict: Armed Groups, Disarmament and Security in a Post-War Society |first1=Michael Vinai |last1=Bhatia |first2=Mark |last2=Sedra |publisher=[[Routledge]] |editor=Small Arms Survey |editor-link=Small Arms Survey |page=170 |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-415-45308-0}}</ref>
* {{flag|Albania}}​<ref name="Jowett"/>
* {{ALG}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sites.google.com:80/site/worldinventory/wiw_af_algeria |title=Algeria |year=2015 |website=World Infantry Weapons |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161124203856/http://sites.google.com:80/site/worldinventory/wiw_af_algeria |archive-date=24 November 2016}}</ref>
* {{flag|Argentina}}​<ref name="ARG"/>
* {{flag|Australia}}​<ref name="Miller2023"/>
* {{flag|Austria}}<ref name="jones2009">{{cite book |editor1-last=Jones |editor1-first=Richard D. |editor2-last=Ness |editor2-first=Leland S. |date=2009 |title=Jane's Infantry Weapons 2009/2010 |edition=35th |location=Coulsdon |publisher=Jane's Information Group |isbn=978-0-7106-2869-5}}</ref>
* {{flag|Bangladesh}}​<ref name="Davis"/>
* {{flag|Benin}}​<ref name="Gazette"/>
* {{flag|Bosnia and Herzegovina}}​<ref name="Bosniak"/>
* {{flag|Botswana}}​<ref name="ROB"/>
* {{flag|Brunei}}​<ref name="Adowa"/>
* {{flag|Bulgaria}}: Supplied by Germany during WW2<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>
* {{flag|Burundi}}​<ref name="Burundian"/>
* {{flag|Cambodia}}​<ref name="Khmer"/>
* {{flag|Canada}}​<ref name="Canadian"/>
* {{flag|Cape Verde}}​<ref name="RCV"/>
* {{flag|Central African Republic}}​<ref name="Miller2023"/>
* {{flag|Chad}}: P1 variant.<ref name="jones2009"/>
* {{flag|Chile}}: [[Chilean Army]].<ref name="diez2000">{{cite book |last=Diez |first=Octavio |date=2000 |title=Hand Guns |series=Encyclopaedia of Armament and Technology |location=Barcelona |publisher=Lema Publications |isbn=84-8463-013-7}} Translated from the Spanish.</ref>
* {{flag|Colombia}}​<ref name="WG"/>
* {{flag|Comoros}}​{{cn|date=November 2023}}
* {{flag|Independent State of Croatia}}<ref name="Scarlata">{{cite web |url=https://www.firearmsnews.com/editorial/evolution-modern-military-pistol/78237 |title=Evolution of the Modern Military Pistol |last=Scarlata |first=Paul |date=10 March 2013 |website=Firearms News}}</ref>
* {{flag|Cuba}}​<ref name="Hogg2023"/>
* {{flag|Cyprus}}​<ref name="Koziel"/>
* {{flag|Democratic Republic of Congo}}​<ref name="DRC"/>
* {{flag|Denmark}}​<ref name="Danish"/>
* {{flag|Djibouti}}​<ref name="Koziel"/>
* {{flag|Dominican Republic}}​<ref name="Miller2023"/>
* {{flag|East Germany}}: Used primarily by police and paramilitary.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://p-38.info/eg/index.htm |title=Post World War II P.38s of East Germany |website=P-38.info}}</ref>
* {{flag|Egypt}}​<ref name="Smith"/>
* {{flag|Eritrea}}​<ref name="TG"/>
* {{flag|Estonia}}​<ref name="Walther"/>
* {{flag|Finland}}: Finnish [[UN peacekeeping forces]], P1 variant.<ref name="armafennicaII">{{cite book |last=Hyytinen |first=Timo |date=2002 |title=Arma Fennica 2, Sotilasaseet |trans-title=Finnish firearms 2, Military weapons |language=fi |location=Jyväskylä |publisher=[[Gummerus|Gummerus Oy, Inc.]] |isbn=951-99887-0-X}}</ref>
* {{flag|France}}: Replaced by the mid-1950s.<ref name="bishop1998"/>
* {{flag|Georgia}}​<ref name="Pistol"/>
* {{flag|Germany}}: P1 variant.<ref name="jones2009"/>
* {{flag|Greece}}​<ref name="Greek"/>
* {{flag|Guatemala}}​<ref name="Bishop2023"/>
* {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Hungary (1920–46)}}<ref name="Scarlata"/>
* {{flag|Italy|1861}}<ref name="Scarlata"/>
* {{flag|Iraq}}: [[Kurdistan Region]] received 8,000 P1 pistols in 2014<ref name='SAS 2015'>{{cite book |url=http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/A-Yearbook/2015/eng/Small-Arms-Survey-2015-Highlights-EN.pdf |title=Small Arms Survey 2015: Weapons and the World |chapter-url=http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/A-Yearbook/2015/eng/Small-Arms-Survey-2015-Chapter-04-EN.pdf |chapter=Trade Update: After the 'Arab Spring' |author=Small Arms Survey |author-link=Small Arms Survey |year=2015 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |ref={{harvid|Small Arms Survey 2015}} |page=110 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150701142546/http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/A-Yearbook/2015/eng/Small-Arms-Survey-2015-Highlights-EN.pdf |archive-date=July 1, 2015}}</ref>
* {{flag|Ivory Coast}}​<ref name="Scarlata"/>
* {{flag|Japan}}​<ref name="JAP"/>
* {{flag|Kazakhstan}} – used as a service pistol in [[private security companies]] at least up to 2007.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://continent-online.com/Document/?doc_id=30083989 |title=Постановление Правительства Республики Казахстан № 1305 от 28 декабря 2006 года "Об утверждении Государственного кадастра гражданского и служебного оружия и патронов к нему на 2007 год" |trans-title=Decree of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 1305 dated December 28, 2006 "On approval of the State Cadastre of civilian and service weapons and cartridges for them for 2007" |website=Континент |language=ru}}</ref>
* {{flag|Kenya}}​<ref name="Kenyan"/>
* {{flag|Kosovo}}​<ref name="Jane"/>
* {{flag|Lebanon}}: Used in small numbers by the [[Lebanese Armed Forces|Lebanese Army]] and later by some Lebanese militias during the [[1958 Lebanon crisis]] and the [[Lebanese Civil War]] (1975-1990).<ref name="Walter">{{cite book |last1=Walter |first1=John |date=2022 |title=Walther Pistols – PP, PPK and P 38 |publisher=Osprey Publishing |isbn=9781472850843 |page=71}}</ref><ref name="jones2009"/>
* {{flag|Liberia}}​<ref name="ROL"/>
* {{flag|North Macedonia}}: P1 variant.<ref name="jones2009"/>
* {{flag|Madagascar}}<ref name="Arnold2023"/>
* {{flag|Malta}}​<ref name="SupicaNahas2023"/>
* {{flag|Mauritania}}​<ref name="Jane"/>
* {{flag|Mongolia}}​<ref name="Mongol"/>
* {{flag|Morocco}}​<ref name="Davis"/>
* {{flag|Mozambique}}<ref name="jones2009"/>
* {{flag|Myanmar}}​<ref name="URM"/>
* {{flag|Namibia}}​<ref name="RON"/>
* {{flag|Nazi Germany}}<ref name="diez2000"/>
* {{flag|Nepal}}​<ref name=Capie/>
* {{flag|North Korea}}​<ref name="DPRK"/>
* {{flag|North Vietnam}}<ref name="wwiiafterwwii">{{cite web |url=https://wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com/2015/07/10/wwii-german-weapons-during-the-vietnam-war/ |title=WWII German weapons during the Vietnam War |date=10 July 2015 |website=WWII After WWII}}</ref>
* {{flag|Nigeria}}​<ref name="Adowa"/>
* {{flag|Norway}}: [[Norwegian Armed Forces]].<ref name="marchington2004">{{cite book |last=Marchington |first=James |date=2004 |title=The Encyclopedia of Handheld Weapons |location=Miami, FL |publisher=Lewis International |isbn=1-930983-14-X}}</ref> Replaced by the [[Glock|P80]] in 1985<ref>{{cite web |url=http://forsvaret.no/om-forsvaret/utstyrsfakta/vapen/Sider/p80.aspx |title=P80 – halvautomatisk pistol |website=[[Norwegian Armed Forces|Forsvaret]] |language=no |access-date=May 28, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140810181833/http://forsvaret.no/om-forsvaret/utstyrsfakta/vapen/Sider/p80.aspx |archive-date=2014-08-10}}</ref>
* {{flag|Oman}}​<ref name="Walther"/>
* {{flag|Pakistan}}: Used by [[Pakistan Navy]] and [[Pakistan Army Medical Corps]].{{citation needed|date=May 2021}} In small numbers purchased from [[West Germany]].{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}
* {{flag|Papua New Guinea}}​{{cn|date=November 2023}}
* {{flag|People's Republic of China}}​<ref name="Gazette"/>
* {{flag|Poland}}​<ref name="Polish"/>
* {{flag|Portugal}}: Used by [[Portuguese Army]] until 2019, when was replaced by the [[Glock|Glock 17 Gen 5]].<ref name="diez2000"/><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://special-ops.org/52138/portuguese-army-adopts-glock-17-gen5-coyote/ |title=Portuguese Army Adopts Glock 17 Gen5 Coyote |last=Ferreira |first=Bryan |date=March 31, 2022 |website=Spec Ops Magazine |language=en-US |access-date=2019-11-12}}</ref>
* {{flag|Serbia}}​<ref name="Serb"/>
* {{flag|Somalia}}​<ref name="FRS"/>
* {{flag|South Africa|1928}}: Standard sidearm of SA Police.<ref>{{cite book |title=Modern African Wars (3): South-West Africa |first=Heitman |last=Helmoed-Romer |year=1991 |publisher=Osprey Publishing |isbn=185532122X}}</ref>
* {{flag|Soviet Union}}​<ref name="Scarlata"/>
* {{flag|Sri Lanka}}​<ref name="Lanka"/>
* {{flag|Sudan}}​<ref name="TG"/>
* {{flag|Suriname}}​<ref name="Bishop"/>
* {{flag|Sweden}}: [[Walther HP|HP]] variant.<ref name="pistole38.nl">{{cite web |url=http://www.pistole38.nl/P38-variations/P38-variations.html |title=P.38 variations |last=Reichert |first=Orv |work=Pistole38.nl |access-date=November 23, 2012 |archive-date=23 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120723195736/http://www.pistole38.nl/P38-variations/P38-variations.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* {{flag|Syria}}​<ref name="ROS"/>
* {{flag|Uruguay}}<ref name="gander1995">{{cite book |editor1-last=Gander |editor1-first=Terry J. |editor2-last=Hogg |editor2-first=Ian V. |date=1995 |title=Jane's Infantry Weapons 1995/1996 |edition=21st |location=Coulsdon |publisher=Jane's Information Group |isbn=978-0-7106-1241-0}}</ref>
* {{flag|Thailand}}​<ref name="Tinderbox"/>
* {{flag|Togo}}​<ref name="ROT"/>
* {{flag|Tunisia}}​<ref name="Adowa"/>
* {{flag|UAE}}​<ref name="Jane"/>
* {{flag|Uganda}}​<ref name="Arnold2023"/>
* {{Flag|United States}}: Used by US Army Special Forces assigned to Detachment 'A', Berlin during the Cold War.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.americanrifleman.org/content/cold-war-warriors-the-men-and-guns-of-special-forces-berlin/ |title=Cold War Warriors—The Men and Guns of Special Forces Berlin |last=Stejskal |first=James |date=December 2017 |magazine=[[American Rifleman]]}}</ref>
* {{flag|Venezuela}}​<ref name="BRV"/>
* {{flag|West Germany}}<ref name="diez2000"/>
*{{flag|Yemen}}​<ref name="Gazette"/>
* {{flagicon image|Yugoslav Partisans flag (1942-1945).svg}} [[Yugoslav Partisans]]<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/YUGOSLAV+PART+II%3A+WORLD+WAR+II+SMALL+ARMS%3A+AN+ASSORTMENT+OF+SMALL...-a0510936519 |title=Yugoslav Part II: World War II small arms: an assortment of small arms from friends and foe alike |first=Paul |last=Scarlata |magazine=Firearms News |date=1 October 2017 |via=TheFreeLibrary}}</ref>
*{{flag|Zambia}}​<ref name=Capie/>
*{{flag|Zimbabwe}}​<ref name="Tinderbox"/>
 
==References==