Please identify this 1940s bike

As it’s Remembrance Sunday, my mate Andy is remembering his grandfather.

Andy wants to know can anyone please identify the bike his grandfather is pictured on here? He ‘liberated’ it from Belgium after WW2 so likely to be German.

Twin exhausts at high level suggest it is not a typical flat BMW engine. It must be a parallel twin.

Zundapp?

On the back of the photo he has written “borrowed from the Gerries as they won’t be needing it”.

Which suggests it was Wehrmacht.

DKW SB200?

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Heh, how cool!

I don’t think the above bike is it? I can spot a few differences, i.e. different take shape, different exhaust tips, seemingly different front fender edging, and what looks like a different rear wheel linkage (aka swingarm).

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Could be. The twin legged forks look right. Zundapp forks are single piece of pressed steel.

This is a 1936 SB200 Wehrmacht, note the triangle frame behind the rear seat. Probably a military specific rack.

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