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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A number of years ago, I had a Jewish buddy of mine that collected weapons, primarily Nazi MG-42s and MG-34s, Mp-40s and StuG-44s and I asked him once, “do you collect anything that wasn’t used to kill family”?
Can’t believe I misspelled Eric Burdon’s name.
One of the stories from Band of Brothers was one of the soldiers obsessed with getting a Luger. It had a tragic ending.
“Most of it is probably fake, anyway.”
There are a lot of reproductions that get passed off as originals but there’s also a boat load of genuine items out there.
Hundreds of thousands of troops confiscated this stuff and took it home.
” Very lucky nobody was killed with those swords - they were as sharp as razors!”
They are. My great gramps ONLY showed it to my gramps on his 18TH b-day because they are extremely sharp. It’s folded/wrapped in a Jap imperial flag captured after they got into the outskirts of Manila.
There was a old guy I used to know at the range.
One day, he showed up with a lot, and I mean a lot, of K98’s
Some were very fancy.
“Took them off of Goering’s castle. He didn’t need them anymore!”
Had a few daggers also that he brought to a swap meet looking from some stuff from the Pacific theater.
Churchill, “those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.”
I met Lemmy in Hollywood years ago at the Strip. He had a Nazi ring on, and I’m sure he didnt care what you think of him wearing it. I even know Duff McKagan’s agent here and gave me the GNR 87 tour passes and they ALL had Nazi symbols on it.
Goering was a fan of Smith & Wesson and had one when he was arrested. Supposedly had a vast collection of them.
Remember Lemmy from this 1985 video? He’s not singing;
My father went in on D-Day. He survived and eventually “liberated” a large Nazi swastika flag...that he used as a spare blanket in the Hürtgen Forest. It’s still around somewhere.
Shoes from concentration camps are the same - the message is an historic ‘never again’... and the secondary message is ‘this really happened’... Here’s a museum filled with proof.
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 artifacts, and they’re not illegal.”
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He has it exactly right.
“They act like owning some old Confederate currency as a matter of historical interest is going to somehow infect you, turning you into a white-supremacist pining for the return of slavery.”
I think you know things like this are simply opportunities for the whiners to whine more. They will use anything they can as a club. Today’s club is Nazi memorabilia. Tomorrow it will be something else because they know the gullible fools will eat it up.
“One of the stories from Band of Brothers was one of the soldiers obsessed with getting a Luger. It had a tragic ending”
My uncle was in the Battle of the Bulge and wounded so sever he was in a hospital for close to a year.
He had a Luger, the leather case and a Nazi flag.
He went for treatment one day while still in the hospital and came back and someone had stolen them .
That was tragic lol
We were friends with a Holocaust survivor who kept Nazi artifacts in his living room. He took them from the concentration camp when he was freed.
There is a “hawt nazi” website with pretty lasses in and out of nazi gear.
Young generation are really big into nazi stuff-clothes, badges, dress up nazi parties etc.
They were having a problem with WWII reanactments in Belgium because everyone wants to come dressed as Nazi SS and not enough American and british soldiers.
Hugo Boss fans.
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