It would be interesting to survey collectors of German WWII era militaria and ask them what they think of Holocaust museums.
There’s a dealer in “Germania” who specializes in Nazi memorabilia. In explaining that not everything with a swastika is Nazi memorabilia, because the swastika is an ancient symbol, his web site says,
One of the funniest is the gas valve with the swastika on it from the Swastika Stove Company in the U.S. Invariably we are asked what concentration camp this originates from or, in some cases, we are “told” what concentration camp it has come from along with a story of how their grandfather ‘liberated it’ and brought it back from Dachau!
Funniest???
Also note the whiff of Holocaust denial.
I draw the line at Civil War reenacters who dress up in gray.
Also, the defense of Garlasco’s use of Flak88 as an internet ID and vanity license plate being a reference to a German artillery gun, not skinhead code for “Heil Hitler”, is a bit hollow. Those guns killed a lot of Americans.
