Posted on 08/11/2021 8:18:48 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
A forthcoming sale of Nazi-related items by a Queensland, Australia auction house is being denounced by Jewish groups.
While Jewish leaders are describing the auction as “sickening,” the Gold Coast-based auction house is defending its decision to hold the auction, claiming that it is important to remember the past, the Brisbane Times reported.
Twenty-two pieces of Nazi memorabilia will be listed by Danielle Elizabeth Auctions, including an Ordnungspolizei (“order police”) uniform containing the SS symbol that is expected to sell for up to $1,500, sleeves embroidered with eagles and swastikas and swastika and skull pins from Waffen-SS hats.
Also for sale is a Star of David armband that would have been worn by Jews in either the Krakow or Drzewica ghetto.
The managing director of the auction house, Dustin Sweeny, described the seller as a Queensland octogenarian who began collecting World War II memorabilia after living in Nuremberg in the 1960s. In frail health, he decided to sell off some of his collection.
Sweeny said the main buyers of World War II artifacts are museums and argued that what the auction house was doing was legal and if people did not like it, they should call on the government to change the law.
“You can’t erase the past, and nor should you, and if it gets erased, everyone forgets what happens and it’s more likely to happen again,” he said. “We’re not promoting anything, we’re not promoting any ideology, it’s just military artefacts, and they’re not illegal.”
He added, ‘We believe in the historical value of them.”
The head of a main Australian Jewish advocacy organization disagreed and called the sale “sickening” and accused the auction house of making money from “history’s darkest crime.”
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These Jewish "leaders" have nothing whatever to say about real-live present-day attacks on Jews. But sell some Nazi memorabilia and suddenly they're all righteous indignation. F@#$ 'em.
History is VERY ugly but it’s still history. If we don’t keep it we will repeat it. Currently in work. Repeating that is. Sadly..............
Then they can buy it.
Put it in a museum, or sell it to a WWII collectors. Knew an old vet that had a bunch of Nazi relics from his service. He took great pleasure in robbing them (as he said).
They just have a problem with making money from the sale. They want a freebie.
It’s someone’s else’s property. If it sickens them so much, buy it all and destroy it. But that’s probably what they just want to do anyway—without buying it.
Most of it is probably fake, anyway.
I, too, think it’s great that modern Neo-Nazis fetishize the Third Reich and its symbols and hope for a return of National Socialism.
Do they fear some old national socialist is going to buy it all up and then try to get the gang back together?
My great grampy was in the Pacific, including Manila. UNtil today, a katana was passed down to our family and came from that battle. Read Band of Brothers and it wasn’t a joke, GI’s were sending loot back to the US like they were mailing letters.
I agree. They are historical artifacts. You don’t have to like the history behind them, but they are artifacts from a bygone era. Unless you just want to just erase and forget history.
I collect military items (pre 1870 only). I have known many collectors over the years and some of the biggest collectors of German WW2 memorabilia and artifacts were Jewish collectors. I don’t pretend to know their mindset but assume it may just be a recognition of that dark time as history that should not be forgotten. I have Confederate items as an important part of my collection but that does not mean I endorse or approve of slavery. They are simply historical artifacts.
Indeed. Body parts as well.
Had a music teacher in elementary school that had a ‘ring’ from the femur of a dead kamikaze pilot that hit his ship. A sailor found the hunk of leg in a bulkhead some weeks after the attack, cleaned it up and sold sections as souvenirs.
He brought that and several pieces of the aircraft skin to show us fifth graders.
Different times.
People collect historical memorabilia from all sorts of regimes, good and bad. It usually has nothing to do with sympathy for those regimes. As I said in another post, my dad’s old stamp collection included stamps from Nazi Germany; they were a reminder of history, nothing more.
Ditto. You cannot, and should not pretend it didn't happen. Tangible physical items make it very real. I've toured a WWII museum and seen actual cans of Zyklon B - with pellets still inside. Powerful (at least for me), makes it all real.
Exactly. I would think museums would bid on it, nothing wrong with that. History is History.
Another friend of mine back then's dad had left the family and we were fooling around with a trunk of his we found in the rafters above their garage and we found over 50 Luger pistols his dad had brought back from his time in Europe. Being good kids, we closed the trunk back up and told his mom what we found.
Motorhead’s Lemmy Fascinated With WWII Nazi Memorabilia
https://bravewords.com/news/motorheads-lemmy-fascinated-with-wwii-nazi-memorabilia
And most people have a very superficial understanding of Nazism and Nazi Germany, which is why people throw around comparisons to Hitler and people buy it. I mean there are people who literally think Trump was Hitler.
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