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Nazi memorabilia for sale down the road is this normal ?

Winot said:
Saw this in flea market in Brussels a few years ago and had a similar visceral reaction.

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that one looks way too pristine, also looks like its made of the same shiny stuff as football t-shirts, got to be a fake. Its a weird thing that i definitely wouldn't have had this strong a reaction to an obvious replica, and i've seen the odd nazi uniform and stuff for sale before and not felt anything.
 
bimble said:
that one looks way too pristine, also looks like its made of the same shiny stuff as football t-shirts, got to be a fake. Its a weird thing that i definitely wouldn't have had this strong a reaction to an obvious replica, and i've seen the odd nazi uniform and stuff for sale before and not felt anything.
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Some years ago while cataloguing a collection of books I came across a copy of a Hitler youth magazine. It had an article in it about Mozart, can't remember much else about its contents. But I felt it a verminous, vile thing, like a grey worm, never had that sort of visceral reaction to something before or since.
 
bimble said:
that one looks way too pristine, also looks like its made of the same shiny stuff as football t-shirts, got to be a fake. Its a weird thing that i definitely wouldn't have had this strong a reaction to an obvious replica, and i've seen the odd nazi uniform and stuff for sale before and not felt anything.
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Yeah definitely a replica. Which is somehow… worse?
 
I have about 1000 or so stamps with swastikas, either in the design or the watermark. Yep, the watermark was changed from lozenges to swastikas in 1933, with the issue of the second Hindenburg set. 'Hakenkreuz'.
 
My zwei pfennig.

It may be banned in Germany, but at a flea market in Dresden (yes, that Dresden) I saw an auld fella at his stall in an SS officer's cap, and at least one stall was offering a copy of Mein Kampf for sale.
 
Sasaferrato said:
I have about 1000 or so stamps with swastikas, either in the design or the watermark. Yep, the watermark was changed from lozenges to swastikas in 1933, with the issue of the second Hindenburg set. 'Hakenkreuz'.
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I was meaning to ask you - Mrs. Idris has some stamps with "Deutsches Post" on them, and which have been overstamped with "Sowjet Besatzung Zone". Worth anything?
 
Pickman's model said:
Some years ago while cataloguing a collection of books I came across a copy of a Hitler youth magazine. It had an article in it about Mozart, can't remember much else about its contents. But I felt it a verminous, vile thing, like a grey worm, never had that sort of visceral reaction to something before or since.
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A colleague of mine once had occasion to read a work published in Germany post-1933. Instead of getting into his hand via interlibrary loan, the library would only allow him to read it in a locked room where a security guard kept an eye on him.
 
Idris2002 said:
If I can find out where she might have put them. . .
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When my brother and I cleared out my Gran's house along with her vast collection of Royal Memorabilia we found a sort of pocket encyclopedia that was published in the 30's sometime. It had articles on the National Socialist German Workers Party and the Great War. One of the articles was titled (and I jest not) "Why Is The White Race Superior?" I binned it but tbh sometimes I think I should have kept it.
 
When I was a child living on Harris, I went to stay with a school friend during the Summer holidays. When poking about in the attic of the house, we came across Mein Kampf, which was published in English in separate sections.
 
I remember coming across a copy of Mein Kampf (in English) in my local library in NYC in the 1970s. Tried to read it, but gave up after a few pages -- it's pretty much unreadable. I doubt that many Nazis or neonazis have managed to plough through it either.
 
that is fascinating, all proceeds to the red cross!
I don't think many people will have carried on buying them avidly for all of the 18 weeks, it was not exactly a page turner.
 
fwiw in my more callow youth, I once found and bought a copy of Triumph of the Will in Home Bargains (for a pound), after being led to believe it was a great piece of filmmaking from a technical POV. Actually it's just really boring it turned out.
 
There's one or two stalls at Tynemouth Market that sell Nazi memorobilia, and have done for years. I've written to the market, council, metro (its in a station) etc and had verbals with the store owners, know other people who have done the same, but they are still there.
 
My Regiment has a full canteen of Nazi cutlery and Crockery it looted at the end of the War!
The "plan" is maybe after a century it might be an amusing anecdote to use it in the officers mess🤔.
The sliver tiger tank is displayed somebody removed the swastika though.
Nazi memorabilia is part of history but its all toxic and collecting it is pretty iffy.
 
likesfish said:
My Regiment has a full canteen of Nazi cutlery and Crockery it looted at the end of the War!
The "plan" is maybe after a century it might be an amusing anecdote to use it in the officers mess🤔.
The sliver tiger tank is displayed somebody removed the swastika though.
Nazi memorabilia is part of history but its all toxic and collecting it is pretty iffy.
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I agree in general, but context matters. The stamps I have with swastikas or pictures of Hitler, and not collected because of these things, but because they are part of the postal history of Germany, missing out 1933 to 1945 would be a big gap.
 
Idris2002 said:
A colleague of mine once had occasion to read a work published in Germany post-1933. Instead of getting into his hand via interlibrary loan, the library would only allow him to read it in a locked room where a security guard kept an eye on him.
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Seems a bit of a harsh way to treat people who just want to read Gunter Grass.
crossthebreeze said:
There's one or two stalls at Tynemouth Market that sell Nazi memorobilia, and have done for years. I've written to the market, council, metro (its in a station) etc and had verbals with the store owners, know other people who have done the same, but they are still there.
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Do you know Kard Bar in Newcastle? I remember that used to have some proper dodgy stuff in. Although I've just looked it up and learned it burned down in a fire a few years back that killed the guy who ran it, RIP.
 
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