What do you do with Nazi memorabilia?

Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

I own a long dagger/short sword. The hilt is in the design of the German eagle with its wings spread out as the hand guards and in the middle of the hand guard is a swastika. The scabbard is also adorned with swastikas on the top, mid section, and bottom.

I don’t want to own this piece as I don’t want to be seen as a Nazi sympathizer or anything of the sort, but I don’t want to sell it to someone who actually is a Nazi sympathizer or something like that.

What do I do with it besides trash it? I don’t want to trash it because it’s decent quality. It’s not historic in any way (which disturbs me to think about) but it’s well made.

What can I do with it?

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SuiXi3D@fedia.io ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Melt it down and turn it into something that can be used for good, not to harm.

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Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
You could de-nazi it. Use a Dremel/rotary tool to take off all the Nazi shit.

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lath@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Use it as a cassus belli and invade Germany.

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aquinteros@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
send a gift to Bert kreischer

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Iapar@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Modify it so that it looks like a Jew out of a Tarantino film took it from a Nazi and made it his own to kill Nazis with it.

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Zozano@aussie.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
OP how did you come to own such a knife?

Why you have it is important as to what you do with it.

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- ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I dint have any pictures of it and can’t take any right now but I have a link to a website showing the same blade.
  
  easyliveauction.com/…/twoday-general-auction-jewe…
  
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Alice@hilariouschaos.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Is it actually from that period though ? Donate to a museum if so if you’re saying it was made within 20 years then to me it has no value. That is way recent and not even affiliated with world War 2

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RandomVideos@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Paint a big red x over the symbols

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masquenox@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Destroy it.

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Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I know the gutteral instinct is to burn it, or melt it down. But I think you should donate it to your local history muesem. This applies for all war stuff you have, not just nazi stuff.

I think its important for all generations to not be allowed to forget what did happen, and what could absolutely happen again if we forget.

Sure, it’s “your” sword, but I just feel like it should serve a more important purpose.

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- Blyfh@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s not historic, though. If that were the case, I would’ve 100 % agreed.
  
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  - Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    All war used uniforms/weapons/equipment I’d say is historic. Even if it was just a helmet used in the civil war, or a soldiers flask in WWI.
    
    It may not be individually a talking point for something historic, but it shows what they used at the time. Especially if you have multiple pieces from the same time period.
    
    And as time goes on, it gets more important. Because as time moves forward, and we have so many advancements in our world, this piece will not advance. Always a visualisation of its time.
    
    Right now I don’t think anyone would consider pieces from the afghanistan war to be “historic”, but the things we currently see as modern, will be relics in 100 years.
    
    We’re barely and I mean BARELY getting to that point of the Viet Nam war pieces seeming as relics.
    
    I think a good rule of thumb is “if the soldiers who would have used the item would have died of old age by now, THEN it’s a relic.”
    
    Which this certainly is. Which is why I think it should be in a glass case, with a little description on its history.
    
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goatman360@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If you want to give it away, look for a museum. Alternatively look for a history group or a theater group you could give it to. Turning a real world items into functional stage props with connection to the time period of plays is is pretty neat.

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