WWII Nazi memorabilia

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When I was cleaning out my parents' home, I came upon the huge Nazi flag that my father cut down from a building in Belgium during WWII. The flag's existence had totally slipped my mind because I hadn't seen it in decades. The swastika was obviously hand-stitched on, so this isn't anything that would be museum quality. Nevertheless, I feel weird about throwing it out, but what's the point of keeping it?

On a related topic, isn't it strange how up through at least WWII, many American soldiers returned home with certain "spoils of war" but apparently no longer do so. At least I hope they don't. Most WWII vets I knew growing up had at least some memorabilia from the war. Stolen or not stolen? When did the policy change?
 

Hand stitching adds to the value of an original Nazi flag.

Do a little research online before you toss it in the trash.

I would sell it to a collector and if you don't care to profit from it donate the money to a good cause.

I have one of these old trivets hanging in my kitchen. People assume it is some sort of Nazi memorabilia but the right facing swastika was a popular symbol of good luck and family prosperity long before Hitler came along.

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Aunt Bea said:
Hand stitching adds to the value of an original Nazi flag.

Do a little research online before you toss it in the trash.

I would sell it to a collector and if you don't care to profit from it donate the money to a good cause.

I have one of these old trivets hanging in my kitchen. People assume it is some sort of Nazi memorabilia but the right facing swastika was a popular symbol of good luck and family prosperity long before Hitler came along.

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I believe it was also the symbol for an Apache ?...Indian tribe & it was the original insignia for the 45 Infantry National guard in Oklahoma . My father's outfit in WWII. Later the Thunderbird became the insignia .And they became regular Army.
 

My uncle John came home with a piece of gold jewelry, it was a locket, octagon shaped, with a small ruby set near the lower part. It had a chain. The only reason I know is because he gave it to my mother. I don't know whatever became of it.
 
When I was a kid, the man across the street had a human skull he had brought back from WWII, somewhere in the Pacific conflict. If he was drinking, he'd get it out and let us hold it. Naturally, we all thought that was pretty cool.

My dad had a lot of Japanese paraphernalia, including a Japanese telephone and lots of magazines and books. He also brought back a Japanese dog that he had rescued as a puppy from a sinking Japanese ship.
 
My hubby makes WW2 model planes and he wants them to be historically accurate,so he wants the swastikas on the German ones... trouble is the model makers don't include them in the kits. He has to order the special decals from England .

One time he tried selling an old unopened model kit of some plane on E Bay. He mentioned that it had the swastika decals , and his ad got zapped from E Bay almost instantly because he mentioned the decals. As soon as he removed the word swastika from the ad, they let him relist it. What a commotion one word can make !
 
RadishRose said:
My uncle John came home with a piece of gold jewelry, it was a locket, octagon shaped, with a small ruby set near the lower part. It had a chain. The only reason I know is because he gave it to my mother. I don't know whatever became of it.
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Octagon is a favorite Russian Orthodox design inherited from Byzantium.

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rgp said:
I believe it was also the symbol for an Apache ?...Indian tribe & it was the original insignia for the 45 Infantry National guard in Oklahoma . My father's outfit in WWII. Later the Thunderbird became the insignia .And they became regular Army.
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Decades ago when I was a teenager, we went to the famous Canton, Texas flea market.
As I walked along, there walking ahead of me was an old Indian man wrapped in a blanket.
On the back of the blanket was a huge swastika like the one Hitler used. It was a strange
"coincidence" because I was reading Mein Kampf at the time.

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I remember my mother on her hands and knees stitching over the swastika pattern on our oriental rug in the living room. She liked the rug, but wasn't going to live with that Nazi symbol in the house! I think it turned out that it was some sort of Indian pattern (from India, not American Indian.)
 
I never understood war memento collectors. Wars are horrifying to live through, horrifying to fight in. Once they're over, the sooner forgotten, the better, in my book! Nazi mementos especially sicken me, and I have to wonder why anyone wants to collect them.
 
treeguy64 said:
I never understood war memento collectors. Wars are horrifying to live through, horrifying to fight in. Once they're over, the sooner forgotten, the better, in my book! Nazi mementos especially sicken me, and I have to wonder why anyone wants to collect them.
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Maybe if you had fought in the war, you might feel differently.

Russia still has the captured Third Reich standards that were casted before Lenin's tomb
in Stalin's 1945 Red Army victory parade. Putin recreates Stalin's Red Army victory parade
bigger and better every year. I'm surprised Putin hasn't taken Hitler's standards from the
museum to again cast them before Lenin's tomb [which is still there by the Kremlin.]




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Olivia said:
Maybe if you had lost relatives in Nazi concentration camps!!! This is about the limit!!!!
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Today the final solution seems to be erasing history as if it never existed.

The Bolsheviks tried that... it doesn't work in the long term.

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KingsX said:
You should take that up with Putin. He has more of it than anyone in his museum.

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Three generations of my family fought in WW1/WW2. My grandfather was with the Canadian forces who liberated Holland. He kept pictures of the concentration camps they freed. Three quarters of the Jewish portion of my family were interred in concentration camps. All but four of them perished. Two others died serving with the Maquis in France. Such comments dishonour their sacrifice.
 
KingsX said:
Today the final solution seems to be erasing history as if it never existed.

The Bolsheviks tried that... it doesn't work in the long term.

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That was not clear. And I really didn't appreciate the Nazi pictures. But then maybe that's just me.
 
Well, as long as it's not political. :confused:

Looks like I just have to overlook some things. Just like it's so much done already.
 
Olivia said:
I realize that, but to me the pictures alone are just glorifying them.
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Let me get this straight...

You think Stalin's Red Army troops lowering captured Third Reich standards and casting them before Lenin's tomb glorifies the Third Reich ??

Ironically, both Stalin and Hitler would disagree with you.

This raises an interesting question...

I've never been to a Holocaust museum. Ironically Putin has built the biggest one in the world in Moscow.

Are there no Third Reich images in such museums ??

I would think it rather difficult to tell your story without images of your villain.

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I can tell my story anyway I want! Would you like me to post the pictures of my three great uncles killed in concentration camps? I don't even know why this kind of thread is even allowed here! What is is going on???
 

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