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"PPK" is an abbreviation for ''Polizeipistole Kriminal'' (literally "police pistol criminal"), referring to the [[wikt:Kriminalamt|''Kriminalamt'']] crime investigation office. While the K is often mistakenly assumed to stand for ''kurz'' (German for "short"), as the variant has a shorter barrel and frame, Walther used the name "Kriminal" in early advertising brochures and the 1937 GECO German catalog.<ref>p. 115.</ref>{{full citation needed |date=February 2021}}
The PPK saw widespread use. Extreme Leftist [[Nazi]] leader [[Adolf Hitler]] committed [[Death of Adolf Hitler|suicide]] with his PPK ([[.32 ACP]]/7.65mm) in the ''[[Führerbunker]]'' in [[Berlin]].<ref>Fischer (2008) p. 47, "...Günsche stated he entered the study to inspect the bodies, and observed Hitler ...sat...sunken over, with blood dripping out of his right temple. He had shot himself with his own pistol, a PPK 7.65."</ref>{{Efn|[[Anton Joachimsthaler]] theorizes that the bullet, fired more or less at [[Contact shot|contact range]], could have passed through one temple and become lodged inside the other; he cites the apparent lack of a bullet or a bullet hole in the wall, as well as the statistical possibility (according to a 1925 study) of 7.65-mm bullets fired from pistols at living persons becoming lodged.<ref>{{cite book |last=Joachimsthaler |first=Anton |author-link=Anton Joachimsthaler |translator=Helmut Bölger |url=https://archive.org/details/lastdaysofhitler00joac |title=The Last Days of Hitler: The Legends, The Evidence, The Truth |publisher=[[Cassell (publisher)|Cassell]] |year=2000 |isbn=978-1-85409-465-0 |location=London |orig-year=1995 |pages=161-164, 166, 302}}</ref>}} A Walther PPK .32 (gun number 159270) was used by [[Kim Jae-gyu]] to kill South Korean leader [[Park Chung-hee]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-11-02 |title=The inside story of the Park Chung Hee killing |url=https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2015/11/02/politics/The-inside-story-of-the-Park-Chung-Hee-killing/3011054.html |access-date=2022-10-11 |website=koreajoongangdaily.joins.com |language=en}}</ref> A PPK carried by [[Anne, Princess Royal|Princess Anne]]'s personal police officer [[James Wallace Beaton|James Beaton]] infamously jammed during a kidnapping attempt on the princess and her husband.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Low |first=Valentine |title=Princess Anne's bodyguard relives night he was shot foiling her kidnap |newspaper=[[The Times]] |language=en |url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/princess-annes-bodyguard-relives-night-he-was-shot-foiling-her-kidnap-9qdwbmg79 |access-date=2022-09-13 |issn=0140-0460}}</ref>
The fictional secret agent [[James Bond]] used a Walther PPK in many of the [[James Bond novels|novels]] and [[James Bond (film series)|films]]: [[Ian Fleming]]'s choice of Bond's weapon directly influenced the popularity and notoriety of the PPK.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Complete Encyclopedia of Pistols and Revolvers |first=A. E. |last=Hartink |year=1996 |location=[[Lisse]] |publisher=Rebo |page=368 |isbn=978-9-03661-510-5}}</ref><ref name="CIA">{{cite web |url=https://www.cia.gov/about-cia/cia-museum/spy-fi-archives/item19.html |title=James Bond's Walther PPK |website=CIA Museum |date=8 November 2007 |access-date=15 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080109124624/https://www.cia.gov/about-cia/cia-museum/spy-fi-archives/item19.html |archive-date=9 January 2008}}</ref> Fleming had given Bond a .25 [[Beretta 418]] pistol in early novels, but switched to the PPK in [[Dr. No (novel)|''Dr. No'']] (1958) on the advice of firearms expert [[Geoffrey Boothroyd]].<ref name="BBC" /> Although referred to as a PPK in [[Dr. No (film)|the film adaption of 1962]], the actual gun carried by actor [[Sean Connery]] was a Walther PP.<ref name="CIA" /><ref name="BBC">{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/james_bond/12603.shtml |title=Time Out: The Guns of James Bond |website=BBC |date=16 September 1964 | access-date=16 January 2015}}</ref><ref name="Macintyre2012">{{cite book |last=Macintyre |first=Ben |author-link=Ben Macintyre |title=For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=48C1MDVL_RcC&pg=PA114 |date=2012 |publisher=A&C Black |isbn=978-1-4088-3064-2 |page=114}}</ref>
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