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Here's two pistols, a Colt 1911A1, and a FB Wz.35 'Vis', nicknamed 'Radom' by people outside of Poland, after its town of origin, and designated P35 when adopted as a substitute standard by the German Wehrmacht after they invaded Poland.
In terms of design, it's a fair bit like a cross between the Colt 1911 and Browning Hi-Power designs, sharing many mechanical principles and design features between both.
What you have here is a hammer-fired short-recoil pistol in 9mm Luger, and a pretty well designed one. It doesn't feature the larger capacity double-stacked magazine as the Hi-Power pistol does (at 13+1 rounds at the time, its big selling point), but at 8+1 it's still decent, and it's a light and slim pistol for the time, particularly for its caliber.
One of the best service pistols of the Second World War, and one of the better of the early 20th century, I think that this design is even better than the DWM Luger P08 and Walther P38, and at least as good as the Colt 1911A1
A fair number of these Vis pistols were smuggled out of the FB factory in Radom, and saw use in the Polish underground, where they'd feature a lot in the Warsaw Uprising
