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???
I think the dealer thinks it’s the funniest item because it was likely manufactured long before Hitlers rise to power, and promotion of the swastika to a sign of evil.
I know modelers who’s specialty is German WW II tanks. They are not closet Nazi’s, nor are they sympathetic to their ideology. And here is a certificate from a company printed in 1910. http://www.scripophily.net/dupadmaccom.html well before the Nazi’s rose to power.
I don’t know this guy. I could hardly guess what’s in his heart by what he collects.
Hate what HRW has become, but the politics of personal destruction isn’t a tactic I’d use to discredit them.
