Anyone collect german ww2 stuff?

[Sxsnuf]

I still have a few K98s that are deadly accurate with Yugo sniper ammo and I will never sell those. The bolt-action on the K98 is like butter.

OH MY GAWD!!!
If you'd read some of the posts here, you'd know those meticulously crafted firearms are symbols of pure EVIL! They should really be cast into the fiery furnace, melted into a blob and recycled into solar panels for deep space probes. That way, they would never soil another square inch of this earth. If you find yourself unable to do that, I'll pay shipping and transfer fees, to me, and do the deed for you. Scouts honor!
Let me know where to send my FFL's info.

 

[monks]

I've got these two vet bring backs. Both made in Oberndorf at the Mauser factory. I've got a k98 as well that I've had since I was 15. Hk got its start in a forced labor barracks just over the hill from the Mauser plant using a couple of their mills that they "aquired" after the war. It's an interesting story how the two companies are related. I hate national socialists and commies but I don't get an icky feeling from these pieces of metal and Bakelite. It was a dark time and our boys did what they had to do. They were the greatest generation. I personally think it's better to preserve them and share the history with the newer generation of what happened and why. I'm glad I live in a free country and can choose to save them from destruction. Heck, I'd own a panzer if I was rich or even a BF 109.

 

[jeffery2Awae]

Kabars,theater mades,stilletos,and a Vietnam plaque.

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The knives to the left can I have one?

 

[1911Fanatic]

Somewhere around here I have a silver baby spoon with a Swastika on the handle. They were given to the mother's of babies born in the breeding farms.

 

[1911Fanatic]

M son has a 1945 Walther PP. I also had a Nazi proofed 43 PPK. It chewed up my hand and I got rid of it. My grandmother kept some Nazi coined that a a German woman paid for her coffee with after the war, at a restaurant where my grandmother waitressed during and after the war.

It's all history, but when I come across that spoon again, I will either auction it or sell it for spot, whichever is greater, as it creeps the hell out of me.

 

[1911Fanatic]

Half of my family is german. The other half, Austrian, with most of them being Jewish.

The German side fought during the war. I have a few stories from them, and at this point I think some of them have been embellished. My mom is convinced that one of her grandfathers (who she didn't like) was SS. Supposedly someone at some time stole an airplane in Africa and tried to fly it back home to Germany, but landed in and was captured in France. One of my great-grandparents was missing an arm. As a kid, I found two medals in my opa's machine shop (one awarded for fighting on the eastern front, the other has slipped my mind).

As for my Dad's side of the family... most of them did not survive the holocaust. I do not have any stories from them, as I was much closer to my mom's side of the family. I wish I knew more. Grandma was old enough to remember some of it. She didn't talk about it much, and she passed some years ago. That history is mostly lost.

I collect all sorts of war memorabilia. This does include WW2 German items. I find all of it, from any time or country, interesting. I'm not going to collect stuff that just the good guys use.

My wife and I recently inherited her grandfather's 1903A3 Smith Corona. And, I just acquired an original bayonet for it. For WWII stuff, I prefer the weapons. From any of the participants.

 

[monks]

My wife and I recently inherited her grandfather's 1903A3 Smith Corona. And, I just acquired an original bayonet for it. For WWII stuff, I prefer the weapons. From any of the participants.

The weapons were the best spoils of war that could be brought home imo.

 

[Spitpatch]

I don't care how much 'history' there is, that crap should have been thrown in a crucible and cast into a memorial for the slain that had to endure that evil empire.

Turning them into 'collectables' for 'history' is a diversion.

A precise justification (quite possibly a paraphrased quote ) given for book burning (the evil empire in such case being the Weimar Republic).

Well done!

 

[monkeybutler]

A precise justification (quite possibly a paraphrased quote ) given for book burning (the evil empire in such case being the Weimar Republic).

Well done!

That is an absurd analogy, in fact, it is not one at all.

 

[Camelfilter]

That is an absurd analogy, in fact, it is not one at all.

In your opinion.

 

[Spitpatch]

That is an absurd analogy, in fact, it is not one at all.

I made no analogy between the two activities. I merely pointed out that the statement could well be (and may well have been) used to justify either.

The similarity between the two activities is the purpose of erasing what went before. With me, any similarity ends there, and I was struck that the statement fit perfectly as justification of burning of either books OR artifacts. Hardly absurd. Rather, a lesson as to what to watch for and avoid.

 

[monkeybutler]

 

[Spitpatch]

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Well, at least you don't refuse to see what's passed. Your bike for sale?

 

[Nosferatu]

A precise justification (quite possibly a paraphrased quote ) given for book burning (the evil empire in such case being the Weimar Republic).

Well done!

An obtuse observer who just wants to argue for the sake of arguing could certainly try to make that point.

Anyone else actually paying attention to the conversation could simply disagree on the merits and go about their day.

 

[Spitpatch]

The merits!

Which and whose artifacts do we burn?

Who decides which and whose artifacts we burn?

Do we always exclusively burn the same artifacts from the same people and period of history, or do we burn different ones next year or a decade from now, when the deciding people are different?

If we begin to choose which artifacts (or books) we need to destroy toward the purpose of erasing tangible evidence of what went before, our risk of repeating it is not only magnified, it is guaranteed.

This from an obtuse observer.

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[wired]

I need more WW2 German stuff. Right now , thats all I got.

 

[teflon6string]

I know shooters/collectors with K98s and Lugers. Well-made weapons that I appreciate for their form and function. Nothing more and nothing less.

I sorta dig Nambus, PKMs, SKSs and AK47s, too (not to mention Mitsubishis, BMWs, Volkswagens, etc.).

What I don't get, is a recently manufactured Indochinese knock-off of a "Zippo" cigarette lighter sporting a swastika emblem for sale at a gun show (often at a table over by the 8" diameter cookies, macrame god's eyes and beanie babies).

WTF...

 

[slimmer13]

I guess I have to put my schnauzer down now.

 

[teflon6string]

I guess I have to put my schnauzer down now.

...before you go blind.

 

[Mikej]

...before you go blind.

I know what you did there. LOLz