cupid_stunt
Merry fecking Christmas.
I very much doubt that trading standards would get involved.
Nazi memorabilia for sale down the road is this normal ?
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Throbbing Angel
this is no longer a place of honour
Fair enough
JimW
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Going off on the WW2 re-enactment tangent, I'd always assumed that it was a uniquely British weird phenomenon, and had often commented that you wouldn't find any of those countries that were actually occupied engaging in such triviality, but then I saw this. Starts at 13:12. I guess they feel enough time has passed and obviously it shows Czech partisans as heroes, but still... bit weird.
Worth a full watch for the trains.
People here dress up as the Red Army (later PLA) on the Long March and in the Anti-Japanese War and you get similar scandals with some young men who enthusiastically dress up as Imperial Army.
Serge Forward
Just enjoyin' my coffee.
Reminds me of the Barbie Museum!There is a "museum" in Wales that is full of Nazi and neo Nazi items. I went with someone I support as he noticed it and it wasn't what either of us were expecting as it wasn't really advertised as such. Bit weird. Also had loads of news clippings about serial killers on the wall and a lamp made out of skin.
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Littledean Jail in the Forest of Dean is a unique visitor attraction and home to the crime through time collection and the quadropehnia collection. Littledean Jail, Crime Through Time Collection, Criminals and Gangsters, World War 2 Heroes and Nazis, Freaks of Natures, Supernatural Ghosts...www.littledeanjail.com
I think describing Mosely and Nazis as "politically incorrect" is a bit of an understatement. The flyer we had wasn't clear and I think this trip advisor review sums it up:
"View the owners collection, not overly educational."
When I was a kid in the 60s and 70s, you saw a fair bit of this stuff, iron crosses and German helmets (popular with the local Hell's Angels) on markets. It was just stuff soldiers brought back from the war and of interest to people who collected all sorts of shite. Now, it's just catnip for Nazi weirdos.
surreybrowncap
“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand"
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So I assume they would not classify them as Nazi material.
Not allowed
Items that are not permitted include, but are not limited to:
- Historical Holocaust-related items, including reproductions such as:
- Uniforms and personal belongings of concentration camp prisoners
- Jewish identification (armbands, Star of David)
- Holocaust photos that depict dead bodies, executions, or other violent or degrading scenes
- Nazi-issued documents (passports, travel papers)
- Historical Nazi-related items, including reproductions such as:
- Uniforms, uniform components, weapons, or other items that bear Nazi symbols, whether visible or covered
- Listings and products in which images are edited or cropped to try and hide Nazi symbols
- De-Nazified items (items that originally had Nazi symbols that have been removed)
- Items that were owned by, affiliated with, or books written by Nazi leaders such as:
- Joseph Goebbels
- Hermann Goering
- Rudolf Hess
- Reinhard Heydrich
- Heinrich Himmler
- Adolf Hitler
- 1936 Olympic medals
- Any item made after 1933 that bears a swastika (e.g., jewelry, clothing, rugs, fabrics), unless listed in the allowed section above. We are sensitive that the swastika is commonly and legitimately used in religions, including Hinduism and Buddhism. However, given the highly offensive nature of the Nazi swastika, we have decided to not allow any non-historic items bearing a swastika.
- Media identified as Nazi propaganda or that otherwise promote hatred or racial supremacy including historic and current items
planetgeli
There's no future in England's dreaming
The 'deny history' bit sounds like a bit of a fash response tbh. Either that or they're completely stupid. Avoid.
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
It's a disgusting inversion of the truth. History is the very reason for the complaint!
bimble
floofy
exactly! properly cross i was when i thought about that.
This
bimble
floofy
not something i'm up for doing really. Tbh i'm not even 100% clear on whether i think selling this sort of thing should be against the law, which it isnt obvs.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
There was a spirited thread about that place when it opened a few years back.otoh:
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hitmouse
music obfuscation technology
not a trot
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Maybe it's one of the Brexit opportunities, Rees Mogg is promoting.
Interesting, my local auction house has a 'Militaria' catalogue up at the moment; their Nazi armband looks pretty genuine to me, Deutsche Wehrmacht, estimated sale price of £140, plus a Luftwaffe officer's visor cap, yours for upwards of £900. Nasty looking set of bayonets too.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
otoh:
Bloke I work with has a Jack the Ripper tattoo. It's very big and clearly visible to everyone. He works in a school. With children. Nobody else seems to think this is any sort of a problem, that he's glorifying a murderer of women in this way.
not-bono-ever
meh
plenty of the real stuff at flea markets in Russia. I cam across an old fella in kaliningrad eons ago who was hawking stuff outside the Hotel kaliningrad ( which is built on top of a like real preserved nazi bunker system still full of stuff & you can pop into). Helmets/ flags/ insignia, whatever. Its a tough town to make a living in
there also fakery in some of the former E-Blok tourist centres. Shite Soviet leica copies are reworked with a few swastikas and stuff and people pay shit loads for them, thinking they have something rare. The genuine Hitler inkwell set in Sofia in the early 90s still appals me
there also fakery in some of the former E-Blok tourist centres. Shite Soviet leica copies are reworked with a few swastikas and stuff and people pay shit loads for them, thinking they have something rare. The genuine Hitler inkwell set in Sofia in the early 90s still appals me
bimble
floofy
absolute fuckers 
I see i've got a reply to the thing i sent yesterday, explaining why it was not ok for them to accuse me of trying to 'deny history' and saying its a shame cos I used to enjoy visiting there regularly as buyer & seller. Reply consist of two words "no worries". I shouldn't be but am upset by it.
I see i've got a reply to the thing i sent yesterday, explaining why it was not ok for them to accuse me of trying to 'deny history' and saying its a shame cos I used to enjoy visiting there regularly as buyer & seller. Reply consist of two words "no worries". I shouldn't be but am upset by it.
Throbbing Angel
this is no longer a place of honour
Anonymous to of to local paper?absolute fuckers
I see i've got a reply to the thing i sent yesterday, explaining why it was not ok for them to accuse me of trying to 'deny history' and saying its a shame cos I used to enjoy visiting there regularly as buyer & seller. Reply consist of two words "no worries". I shouldn't be but am upset by it.
BristolEcho
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That's really bad. So dismissive of what is a valid concern even if they feel they should be able to sell it.absolute fuckers
I see i've got a reply to the thing i sent yesterday, explaining why it was not ok for them to accuse me of trying to 'deny history' and saying its a shame cos I used to enjoy visiting there regularly as buyer & seller. Reply consist of two words "no worries". I shouldn't be but am upset by it.
Chilli.s
mingling jets and statuettes
I admire your stand on this Bimble. We live in a changing world and it's the little things like firing off a complaint email that do count. No idea what the auctioneers are thinking but they are composed of individual staff with individual opinions and feelings, you'll never know what effect your actions had, but let's assume positive for the long term.
Antiques and collectables are littered with quandaries like this, ivory and animal skins, human remains, smuggled antiquities and forgeries.
Take solace in the thought that it is probably a fake and the collector that buys it will be fleeced for their disgusting poor taste.
Antiques and collectables are littered with quandaries like this, ivory and animal skins, human remains, smuggled antiquities and forgeries.
Take solace in the thought that it is probably a fake and the collector that buys it will be fleeced for their disgusting poor taste.
bimble
floofy
fuck em, and whoever carefully stored the old rag in their house for decades and whoever buys it tomorrow. I know there's nothing unusual about any of this really but it does feel like a reminder that there's plenty of absolute wankers around here, in this merry bit of England where they love to festoon the whole twee town in crocheted poppies every November.
absolute fuckers
I see i've got a reply to the thing i sent yesterday, explaining why it was not ok for them to accuse me of trying to 'deny history' and saying its a shame cos I used to enjoy visiting there regularly as buyer & seller. Reply consist of two words "no worries". I shouldn't be but am upset by it.
Wow, that is... Remarkably tone deaf. Presume it's an independent small auction place. Family run or something. Cos that sounds like something the *18 YO bosses son would reply with.
*(Not all 18 YO men etc.)
I often see nazi stuff for sale on flea markets & antique fairs in the UK tbf. The guys selling militaria regularly have nazi uniform, insignia and the like. Big flags aren't something I've seen very often though
bimble
floofy
i hope its that and not you know, something shitter.
Did pop an email to a local paper just now, in case they have nothing better to do than attend the auction tomorrow, which to be honest round here they probably don't, as a local interest story you know.
Yossarian
Get thee behind me, Santa
Good on you for knocking those barriers down and throwing stuff everywhere, you left the place looking like a total shambles.
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