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Nazi memorabilia for sale in Dublin. Appropriate?
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Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,550 Mod ✭✭✭✭
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Because I find that the more mature people get, the less "offended" they get by inanimate objects.
This is the problem with only reading parts of a thread.
Perhaps you should read this post where I clarify my "offence"
With everything that goes on in our would at the moment, wondering if whether selling WWII memorabilia is appropriate or not has to be way, way down on one's list and with a bit of age, you'll realise this.
As it happens I am the wrong side of 40 and I have seen my fair share of war memorabilia in the Imperial War Museum in London, a war museum in Paris and at a friends house (he had to build an extension onto his house to store his extensive military uniform collection). These are places that I expect to see such things and I have to say I found it fascinating. However I did find it odd to find doodles from Adolf Hitler (if they are genuine) in a furniture shop.
Perhaps as I grow older I will become accustomed to finding delightful personal possessions belonging to the great Führer in other furniture shops :pac:0 -
This is the problem with only reading parts of a thread.
Perhaps you should read this post where I clarify my "offence"
I've read the entire thread, including your rollback above, which is why I put "offended" in inverted commas. I don't believe that you are, but you clearly take exception.As it happens I am the wrong side of 40 and I have seen my fair share of war memorabilia in the Imperial War Museum in London, a war museum in Paris and at a friends house (he had to build an extension onto his house to store his extensive military uniform collection). These are places that I expect to see such things and I have to say I found it fascinating. However I did find it odd to find doodles from Adolf Hitler (if they are genuine) in a furniture shop.
Perhaps as I grow older I will become accustomed to finding delightful personal possessions belonging to the great Führer in other furniture shops :pac:
Personally I would find it quite odd to find such items in a furniture shop myself, but frankly I would consider it a great find, assuming that the items were, indeed, genuine and I was still indulging in collecting WWII stuff.
I would suspect that the items in question are largely fake, if they're in a cabinet off to the side of a furniture shop. That would worry me more, to be perfectly honest.0 -
Capt'n Midnight wrote: »Calculon: [voice-over] ...working in an automotive research lab. I was working on Project Satan ... [He puts a door onto the side of a red car.] ... a savage, intelligent military vehicle built from the most evil parts of the most evil cars in all the world. The steering wheel from Hitler's staff car, the left-turn signal from Charles Manson's VW, the windshield wipers from that car that played Knight Rider.
Fry: Knight Rider wasn't evil.
Calculon: His windshield wipers were. It didn't come up much in the show though. Anyway...
The wipers on this yoke don't look up to much...do they...but a cool half Million nonetheless.......the virtues of the Freemarket Economy...
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/himmler-nazi-death-car-sale-500-000-article-1.2461016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu7UzZVkeJE
There's even a bit of synergy goin on too...Give it a lash Iggy....(Imagine that car-transport Train full of brand new Wanderers ?)
Great thread all the same Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
Charles Mackay (1812-1889)
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Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,550 Mod ✭✭✭✭ Join Date:Posts: 12249
I've read the entire thread, including your rollback above, which is why I put "offended" in inverted commas.
"Rollback"
:D
Believe that if you like, I don't mind.
As you have read the entire thread you will know that I have not taken myself or this topic too seriously throughout (with references to Father Ted from early on).I don't believe that you are, but you clearly take exception.
I don't know what you mean by this.Personally I would find it quite odd to find such items in a furniture shop myself, but frankly I would consider it a great find, assuming that the items were, indeed, genuine and I was still indulging in collecting WWII stuff.
As it happens I bought Russian medal just because it looked interesting.I would suspect that the items in question are largely fake, if they're in a cabinet off to the side of a furniture shop. That would worry me more, to be perfectly honest.
Perhaps it is all fake, I don't know. However if I was a betting man I would bet that most or all of it is what it claimed to be. It certianly looked authentic to my very untrained eye. There were also a number of medals with "reproduction" written above them.
I sent Nodin the details by PM. Ask him, he seems to be a bit of an authority on this stuff.0 -
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I'm 99% positive it was from the big RAF Tangmere raid.
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