Ya just never know what is hiding in the attic ......check it out
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And so you should.....but don't mistake the enjoyment of preserving history, good or evil.....with the celebration of what the Nazi's stood for.
I don't believe the OP, in anyway, was inferring he hoped for the later.
Let's keep this thread on the rails.
Thanks for sharing OP
Those are war trophies, you are just as much celebrating the vet that brought them back by remembering and keeping things like this around. For the next generation there won't even be living ww2 vets. So we must tell their stories.
I hope that incendiary bomb has been de-acted
I once had a 14 foot nazi stadium banner. When I was in the army, my mother gave it to the kid across the street! NEVER asked me! Of course that was over 50 years ago. Wonder what it would be worth today?
Dad had a pillow case of surrendered handguns that he through into the Rhine sometime in 45. Naturally, I freak at 16 & asked why? "That Sh!t was a P.I.A. to carry around by 46".
I think my dad made it home by sometime in 47 or 48.
said it much better than I did...very eloquent
Even though it's nazi stuff it's a cool find anything with history is interesting even if it is a very dark history. I would love to find some old stuff like that any day German Canadian American whatever it's all neat the war is long over. I think it's neat to see anything old like that this is coming from a guy with no vested interests or history to align with. History is history it happened.
Not very often I'm referred to as eloquent! Haha. Thx.
As a side note, in grade 10 history, my teacher brought in his fathers war trophy.
A kreigsmarine dagger, and naval battle flag taken from a u-boat they had captured. Talk about making a lesson stick, hand a 16 fascinated with ww2 a nazi dagger!
Never forgot it. Was only 14 years ago but still.
The evil empire attraction is weird no?
I've discussed this before and yes sometimes even with women.
While I've no burning desire to own Nazi memorabilia, if the right item fell into my hands...it'd get kept.
A cousin from NV has an SS officers ring of some sort. Who wouldn't pick it up and notice that it has some extra weight?
I'd not wear it, but it does have some mystique no?
I've discussed this before and yes sometimes even with women.
While I've no burning desire to own Nazi memorabilia, if the right item fell into my hands...it'd get kept.
A cousin from NV has an SS officers ring of some sort. Who wouldn't pick it up and notice that it has some extra weight?
I'd not wear it, but it does have some mystique no?
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It's an odd human condition of being against something, yet still able to 'admire' it.
Just like the Nazi uniforms. Hate them all you want, but it's hard to deny that they had some damn handsome looking uniforms.
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That's exactly what I'm thinking.
Yep, I don't collect this stuff either but I do understand the mystique. Some of it is even well made!
I would be taken aback if upon entering someone's home found Swastika's and a shrine to old Adolf though. These clowns are around...Germany was correct in outlawing the stuff within their borders IMHO. Collecting war trophies over here is quite different than flaunting Neo-Nazi ideology where it began.{same as owning the ring vs wearing it}What is the story behind the arm band anyhow? I've never seen an emblem like that before.
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The stuff is still out there. Last week my technician gave me some of her dad's WW2 stuff from the basement. A mess kit, large P37 pack and belt and pouches, and most curious is a small gray metal tin with rifle cleaning supplies and chain pull-through. It's German, no doubt liberated from a POW or found during his tour in Holland. It's been in his daughter's basement for the last 40 odd years collecting dust since he passed away.
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I like the dagger, but i do not collect this type of thing.
