As they were minimally equipped with AFVs, at best an armoured car platoon of three, regular German infantry divisions of this period were very keen on incorporating "Beutepanzer" or captured enemy armour. In this case also, the division for the moment occupying the province of South Holland, "227. Infanterie-Division", was not slow to exploit the occasion: already on 15 May it obtained permission to add four M39s, together with some Landsverk vehicles, to its strength. They were used by its "Aufklärungs-Abteilung" or reconnaissance battalion. It is uncertain what was the exact provenance of these four vehicles. One M39 had been destroyed by its own crew and photographs shows that the one stuck at the Scheveningen boulevard was cannibalised by the Germans. The two other cars at Scheveningen were pulled from the shallow sea and repaired. Photographic evidence shows both M39s with and without guns in use by other German units. The four vehicles abandoned in the west of North Brabant were on 16 May in the hands of "33. IR", an infantry regiment of "225. ID", that had assembled them at a base in Roosendaal; their exact further fate is unknown, though they were doubtlessly pressed into service. Later an official German designation was given: "Panzerspähwagen DAF 201 (h)" ("reconnaissance armoured car DAF 201 (h)"), in which the "h" stands for "holländisch", "Hollandic".