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Just for the record, the part I said that broke was the EJECTOR, which is set into the left side of the receiver, not the EXTRACTOR, which is set into the top of the breechblock. Extractors may break, but I have never seen one that did. Ejectors are more susceptible to breakage.
The marking on the extractor is "GELADEN" or "loaded" which is visible when there is a round in the chamber, so it is what we now call a loaded chamber indicator as well as the extractor. On contract guns, the German word "GELADEN" was usually replaced with the same term in the language of the using country.
Jim
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