Replica Zyklon B cans

[Adrian Stevenson]

I think we are all in total agreement about these cans. They have no place in anyones collection.

Cheers, Ade.

[nt198998]

I'm sorry about my comment about "whats wrong with the cans", I meant that as sarcasm, as whats the difference between buying Zyklon B cans, and buying the clothes worn by the victims

[Sonderkommando]

Or buying replica guns for that matter.....

If used in an appropriate display then I would find them acceptable.

[Finnishlion178]

That is very sicking. I once seem a so called " Collcetor" with a real can. I was young at the time but when I look back on it. It was just sicking that someone would want something like that. He had uniforms from the camp. Some jewelry with baby's teeth on it. Clubs and a dagger that was made from human bones. It was things that belong in the back in Musesm. He had Neo- Nazi items as well. I did not see how he could call himself a "Collcetor" with things like that.

[MauserKar98k]

I think we are all in total agreement about these cans. They have no place in anyones collection.

Cheers, Ade.

I agree completely. These items are in very bad taste and are extremely offensive as far as I'm concerned, especially if they were in a private collection. The only place where I could see them as remotely appropriate would be in a museum display about the Holocaust. Having replica guns in a collection is a completely different matter, entirely.

[MauserKar98k]

That is very sicking. I once seem a so called " Collcetor" with a real can. I was young at the time but when I look back on it. It was just sicking that someone would want something like that. He had uniforms from the camp. Some jewelry with baby's teeth on it. Clubs and a dagger that was made from human bones. It was things that belong in the back in Musesm. He had Neo- Nazi items as well. I did not see how he could call himself a "Collcetor" with things like that.

That is just plain disturbing. That guy has some major issues.

[nt198998]

Well, there is 1 non-museum use I could agree with.

Every year, I teach a class (yes, a 15 yr teaching) a class about WWII, and having it as a tangible piece I would not object to, but that would be a very very small niche, and I don't think most sales would go to that.

(I don't have one)

[Paul McKee]

FWIW,


Although vaguely worded, the website seems to imply that these were originally made for film use (movies) :

They were made for use in pictures and are perfectly suitable for use in any museum display.

The fact that they also offer the repro shipping cartons would support that. I doubt that any fanatic wanting these cans simply for their shock value would need repro shipping cartons as well...but cartons would have been necessary props in a film depiction, IMHO. Perhaps this is only a thinly-veiled excuse, but if true, it would be at least another valid reason to repro the cans and cartons. Beyond that, I wouldn't have either in my collection...a perfect waste of money and would be in extremely poor taste.

Besides, I collect militaria.

Paul

[Johann Anton]

I have to agree with the general concensis here. Original items of this nature DO have their place in history, and should be preserved, but to replicate such an evil device is a bit perverted and disturbing.

[Paul McKee]

I should clarify. I'm assuming that they are implying these are left-over movie props much like the stuff left over from SPR and being sold to the general public. (I seem to remember seeing a holocaust movie with a rather detailed depiction of Zyklon-B canisters being used.) They couldn't possibly be hoping a film production company would stumble on their website as a source.

Nice selection of German military manuals on their site, though. Not cheap and many of them are already sold.

Paul

[VonLuck]

Just the thought of having such a thing (even if its a repro) in my house is rather unconfortable. I remember seeing the some of these cans at Auschwitz and it was certainly a sobering experience.
As far as I'm concerned a museum like this is the only place these damned things belong.
And I'm sorry but I don't see how this is comparable to owning SS items. Gassing millions of human beings isn't even in the same ballpark as ordinary war crimes, which were comitted by all during the war.

[all1knew]

Hello,

It is products like this.........and the people who purchase them that give us a bad name as these things are associated.

William Kramer