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Nazi memorabilia for sale in Dublin. Appropriate?

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  • 24-12-2015 3:04pm
    #1
    2011
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,546 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    I went to a second hand shop in Dublin yesterday, it mainly sells furniture. I was just browsing and unexpectedly found some WW2 bits and bobs of that I found interesting.

    While rummaging I found some authentic looking German iron crosses, swastika type medals and badges and such like. There were also some old post cards of Adolf Hitler. Also included was some original (or so the notice on it claimed) signed doodles and notes by the Führer himself with a price tag on it of over €1,250. There were also a number of medals, badges and such like from the allied forces.

    I have no objection to seeing this type of thing in a museum but I would be quite shocked to see it in someones home. In fact I find it quite offensive and I was surprised to see it for sale in a shop such as this.

    According to this link:
    You won’t find Nazi regalia on eBay and the heavy hitters of the UK auction world, Sotheby’s, Christies, and Bonhams, won’t handle it either.

    I am reluctant to post the name of the shop, but it is well know for furniture and is not far from the city centre.

    Is it just me or is selling Nazi memorabilia such as this entirely inappropriate?


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    Sheeps
    Registered Users Posts: 2,762 ✭✭✭Sheeps


    grow up, they're historical artifacts.


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    s8n
    Registered Users Posts: 3,833 ✭✭✭s8n


    what shop was it ?


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    the evasion_kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭the evasion_kid


    some people dig the imagery but not the beliefs behind it, like lemmy from motorhead,he has an apartment full of the stuff


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    El Weirdo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,646 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    s8n wrote: »
    what shop was it ?

    Reichsmarkland.


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    MaryAntoinette
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    Did you ring Joe op?


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    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users Posts: 7,761 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    s8n wrote: »
    what shop was it ?

    Lidl?


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    Junkyard Tom
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    s8n wrote: »
    what shop was it ?

    Accessorize!


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    2011
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    MaryAntoinette wrote: »
    Did you ring Joe op?

    Not yet, but I am seriously considering it.


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    Sunnyisland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,562 ✭✭✭✭Sunnyisland


    I heard that taxi app called hail is Nazi owned ?


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    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    If I wasn't so full from biscuits and ham I'd be morally outraged. Bump the thread in the new year and ill act all pc and upset about it.


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    Menas
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    2011 wrote: »
    Not yet, but I am seriously considering it.

    Dont, it will just increase demand for these items and send the price up.

    But as said above, they are just historical artefacts. Not too outrageous that they are on sale in dublin.


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    chillybilly
    Registered Users Posts: 28 ✭chillybilly


    He said wearing his Che Guevara shirt.


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    MonkieSocks
    Registered Users Posts: 8,295 ✭✭✭MonkieSocks


    Wonder are had they connections to

    http://www.olddublintown.com/swastika-laundry.html

    =(:-) Me? I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude (-:)=



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    #15
    2011
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    Menas wrote: »
    Not too outrageous that they are on sale in dublin.

    Really? I had never seen items like this for sale before, it is not as if I went looking for them.


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    Wabbit Ears
    Registered Users Posts: 3,043 ✭✭✭Wabbit Ears


    Its history FFS. There's loads of people who are WW2 collectors who are not Nazi sympathisers. ( In fairness there are also loads of white collar Nazis around also)


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    #17
    2011
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    Menas wrote: »
    Dont, it will just increase demand for these items and send the price up.

    But as said above, they are just historical artefacts. Not too outrageous that they are on sale in dublin.

    I was joking :D


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    #18
    2011
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    Wabbit Ears wrote: »
    Its history FFS. There's loads of people who are WW2 collectors who are not Nazi sympathisers. ( In fairness there are also loads of white collar Nazis around also)

    Totally normal, sure.
    I saw it on Father Ted :pac:


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    Avatar MIA
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    realies wrote: »
    I heard that taxi app called hail is Nazi owned ?

    It's actually co-owned by an Irishman and a German. Hail'O


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    MonkieSocks
    Registered Users Posts: 8,295 ✭✭✭MonkieSocks


    MaryAntoinette wrote: »
    Did you ring Joe op?



    “Joe Duffy doesn't do what Joe Duffy does for Joe Duffy,



    Joe Duffy does what Joe Duffy does because Joe Duffy IS Joe Duffy”

    =(:-) Me? I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude (-:)=



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    josephryan1989
    Registered Users Posts: 669 ✭✭✭josephryan1989


    2011 wrote: »
    I went to a second hand shop in Dublin yesterday, it mainly sells furniture. I was just browsing and unexpectedly found some WW2 bits and bobs of that I found interesting.

    While rummaging I found some authentic looking German iron crosses, swastika type medals and badges and such like. There were also some old post cards of Adolf Hitler. Also included was some original (or so the notice on it claimed) signed doodles and notes by the Führer himself with a price tag on it of over €1,250. There were also a number of medals, badges and such like from the allied forces.

    I have no objection to seeing this type of thing in a museum but I would be quite shocked to see it in someones home. In fact I find it quite offensive and I was surprised to see it for sale in a shop such as this.

    According to this link:

    I am reluctant to post the name of the shop, but it is well know for furniture and is not far from the city centre.

    Is it just me or is selling Nazi memorabilia such as this entirely inappropriate?

    Hitler's half brother Alois was working as a waiter in the Shelbourne when met Bridget Dowling at the Dublin Horse Show and married her in London the following year. Their son Patrick William Hitler was born in 1911. She claims that Adolf Hitler briefly stayed with them in England to avoid conscription into the Austrian Army. Patrick served in the US Army during WW2 and settled with his mother in US with his mother. Patrick Hitler had four sons in the America. Bridget died in 1967 and her son Patrick died in 1987. Three of Patrick's sons are still alive and well.


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    Oops69
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    You found an item with a signature with a price tag of over1k , I dint think you'd find an item with a value of 1k while "rummaging " , you're full of ****e I think .


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    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users Posts: 4,421 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    I'd say it's fine. Lightening never strikes twice and do we even have many Jews in Ireland?

    There was an article about a Kilkenny man who's daughter Bought him a birthday cake with the swastika on it. He simply admired the fashions, not the ideology!!


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    keeponhurling
    Registered Users Posts: 5,129 ✭✭✭keeponhurling


    "And would you have anything at all from the Allied side, Father?"

    "No no, that wouldn't interest me at all at all"


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    FURET
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    2011 wrote: »
    In fact I find it quite offensive and I was surprised to see it for sale in a shop such as this

    You find it offensive and inappropriate. Well so bloody what? "I find it quite offensive" has become one of the most sanctimonious and obnoxious combinations of words in language today.


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    #26
    2011
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    Oops69 wrote: »
    You found an item with a signature with a price tag of over1k , I dint think you'd find an item with a value of 1k while "rummaging " , you're full of ****e I think .

    It is on display in a glass cabinet at the till along with lots of similar stuff.
    I was actually looking for furniture and got sidetracked.
    Are you suggesting that I am making this up?
    If so why? Is this simply not credible?


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    experiMental
    Registered Users Posts: 1,137 ✭✭✭experiMental


    I was born in USSR and that country screwed me and millions of other people over. I still have a collection of Soviet coins, so it's perfectly fine owning memorabilia from repressive regimes.


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    MonkieSocks
    Registered Users Posts: 8,295 ✭✭✭MonkieSocks


    I think I bought a Book from there once about Nazi Homosexuals.


    Think it was called "Mien Camp"

    =(:-) Me? I know who I am. I'm a dude playing a dude disguised as another dude (-:)=



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    [Deleted User]
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    In the 80s I had one if them old green German parkas with the flag of West Germany and the name of some German guy on the label.

    Got into trouble with the fashion police loads of times. In fairness, there was no defence.


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    K.Flyer
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    2011 wrote: »
    It is on display in a glass cabinet at the till along with lots of similar stuff.
    I was actually looking for furniture and got sidetracked.
    Are you suggesting that I am making this up?
    If so why? Is this simply not credible?


    Glass cabinet just inside the door on the left hand side?


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    #31
    2011
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,546 Mod ✭✭✭✭2011


    K.Flyer wrote: »
    Glass cabinet just inside the door on the left hand side?

    Yes.


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