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25-08-22, 06:50 PM
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Interesting Article!!!
Just sharing this because I find it very interesting. If they did that over here our local shows would end up being at best a dozen table (Ok that's an exaggeration, but it seems like it). Of course it doesn't/wouldn't affect me until they would start doing the same for British and Commonwealth badges!!!
https://www.newsweek.com/police-bust...phlets-1736975 Terry 
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25-08-22, 06:53 PM
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Presumably all items were from a local house clearance!
Tim
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25-08-22, 07:07 PM
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Head of the "Nazi Communist Party" - an oxymoron, surely?
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26-08-22, 07:00 AM
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Hello,
Sensitive topic here in France too I cnfirm, where similar cases regularly happen. «*Each visitor to the exhibit who purchased a ticket received a piece of paper that described an object considered to be Nazi memorabilia and was asked if they would destroy, sell or keep the item. The sale of Nazi memorabilia is banned in parts of Europe while the director of Israel's Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem, Haim Gertner, has stated that some objects are worth preserving as he believes antisemitic events in history should be remembered.*» Completely agree with Mr Gertner. As long as no apology is made of the Nazis’ ideas thru the use of related items. One should remember of the past, to try to avoid redoing same mistakes. Where I don’t like what I see, it is when the owner of such items obviously shows signs that he/she ‘lives’ with a more questionable mindset on the topic (we have all seen non-re-enactor people wearing clothes looking like NS effects, in certain arm fairs, right?). Last, worth to mention too that one of my two grand fathers has also brought back from his 44/45 liberation campaign with ´armée De Lattre’ a significant amount of ‘souvenirs’ caught on the enemy, and I can tell you that no one will ever force me to destroy them, or let them go. JD
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26-08-22, 03:02 PM
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Some very interesting comments. I have two "NAZI" items in my collection - a Knight's Cross ribbon and an Italian made and beautifully painted cigarette case. The reason I have them and keep them is because I became friends with a medic of he 29th Division who went ashore in the first wave on Omaha Beach on D-Day. He was 19 years old! Anyway, at some point during he war he was treating German soldiers, and one fellow gave him the ribbon off of his tunic saying this is all I have to give you to thank you for saving my life. The same with the cigarette case. I'll take a picture of them and add it to my album later today. Neither one has a swastika on it.
He was going to give me his M-43 but on the ship coming home somebody rifled through the kit bags and stole it. He said it had not been cleaned and was pretty rough. I would have loved it. He gave his helmet to his daughter...who promptly turned it into a flower pot!!!  Terry
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26-08-22, 06:45 PM
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Should we ban the sale of Nazi items ? It would be like deleting history, however unpopular.....
Andy
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#7
26-08-22, 09:21 PM
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Are you sure he was not arrested for selling Nazi fakes? Because that is what nearly everything in the photo is.
CB
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