This is perhaps the only indication Maroszek rifles were reissued to Nazi forces.
Maroszek stated he had seen a group of German soldiers armed with wz.38M rifles in occupied Warsaw. However, it is unclear if any rifles of this pattern left the Radom factory before the German invasion (all the surviving examples display Arsenal Nr. The decision was made to begin serial production of the rifle at the Fabryka Broni (the Arms Factory) in Radom in 1938. The highest serial number observed is 1054 (it is assumed numbering started from '1001', not counting the prototypes and pre-production examples). Barrels were supplied by the Panstwowa Fabryka Karabinow (State Rifle Factory) in Warsaw. The wz.38M rifles were manufactured by the Zbrojownia Nr. Production was not resumed under the German occupation. It is believed only about 150 rifles of this pattern were completed before the German invasion of Poland. After a Polish army order was received, small scale production began in 1938. Several prototypes and pre-production samples of his rifle were manufactured from 1936 to 1938. Maroszek was one of the three winners of Poland’s 1934 self-loading rifle trials. He was known mainly as a designer of the Polish anti-tank rifle wz.1935 'Ur'. The rifle was designed by a Polish engineer Józef Maroszek (1904-1985).
