Try this one on: My mother once yelled at me, "Those b---ds killed my brother!!"
I was a little more discreet after that. At least until I moved out.
stevenn has a good point: beauty and craftsmanship can distract a country away from evil.
Others can be made:
- All history deserves to be preserved, no matter how bad it was, and perhaps because it was so bad. Many blacks today collect the quasi-racist caricature folk art that was common years ago, and some who have been quoted on the issue make this very point. And in the same vein: Who would think of tearing down Auschwitz? Your EK deserves to be saved because it was there.
- The kinds of relics I read about and see pix of on this forum are typically on display at military museums. For example, the USAF Museum has swastikas on the tails of German planes, EKs, a bust of Hitler, large metal Nazi eagles, you name it. Is the USAF Nazi? I doubt it. Its collection is uncensored. So you're creating your own small museum, uncensored.
- If one's interest is World War II in particular, or militaria in general, the point can be made (if necessary) by displaying the '39 EK right next to the Order of the Red Star, the Croix de Guerre, the Purple Heart, etc. etc.
What I get these days is "Why do you care about World War II?" And my answer is "Because World War II was the greatest disaster in the history of mankind."
Just ask my mother, who still cries over her brother, killed in action, Aachen, 1944.
- Paul in Ohio
I was a little more discreet after that. At least until I moved out.
stevenn has a good point: beauty and craftsmanship can distract a country away from evil.
Others can be made:
- All history deserves to be preserved, no matter how bad it was, and perhaps because it was so bad. Many blacks today collect the quasi-racist caricature folk art that was common years ago, and some who have been quoted on the issue make this very point. And in the same vein: Who would think of tearing down Auschwitz? Your EK deserves to be saved because it was there.
- The kinds of relics I read about and see pix of on this forum are typically on display at military museums. For example, the USAF Museum has swastikas on the tails of German planes, EKs, a bust of Hitler, large metal Nazi eagles, you name it. Is the USAF Nazi? I doubt it. Its collection is uncensored. So you're creating your own small museum, uncensored.
- If one's interest is World War II in particular, or militaria in general, the point can be made (if necessary) by displaying the '39 EK right next to the Order of the Red Star, the Croix de Guerre, the Purple Heart, etc. etc.
What I get these days is "Why do you care about World War II?" And my answer is "Because World War II was the greatest disaster in the history of mankind."
Just ask my mother, who still cries over her brother, killed in action, Aachen, 1944.
- Paul in Ohio
), a few are even interested when I share a new purchase with them. 
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But no matter what I write - SS, XX or elite or whatever - you will know what I am talking about. So they must either ban the listing of any item of the period, or let the symbols be normally written/shown. They are bloody idiots! As if not mentioning Hitler or SS will change the fact of their historical existence! I have written all this - and much more to Ebay - several times. Of course, I know this will change nothing. But at least I think of my letters like small forks with which I poke thir fat aXXes 
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