“Who buys such things and brings them to a school????”
No kidding. I attended public school for 12 years. In all that time, I don’t ever recall seeing an actual Nazi flag in school. Anybody?
At the time, most of the male teachers and administrators in that district had been in the service during either WWII or Korea, and a few of them also contributed. For a small-town midwestern school district, the amount of souvenirs and vet bring-backs was surprising.
We kids also found out that plenty of our classmates' dads were a hell of a lot tougher customers in their younger days than we gave some of them credit for.