Who cares if people think you're a Nazi sympathizer. You know who you are. Anyone who thinks you are without knowing you is a dumbass.
It's a historical collectors item, nothing more. Keep it. It's probably really cool.
He just said it's not historical in any way.
OK well then why does he have it?
A gift apparently. Though I'm curious why someone would give nazi memorabilia as a gift and if the gifter knew it wasn't a genuine historical item when giving it to op.
I can't answer that. I suggest you ask OP that question instead of me.
Watch It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia S01E06
lots of collectors that aren't Nazis, maybe sell it
The real trick is in finding the genuine collector, and not just another Nazi in a collector’s Trenchcoat.
I'd honestly destroy it in some way, due to what it represents. Fuck saving or selling it.
We need to remember this history and all its details obviously, but we have a gargantuan amount of written and recorded history already enough, so I'd happily destroy any of that trash I found. With a smile.
You should destroy history because when you do, it's like it never happened(and will never happen again) /s
Melt it down and turn it into something that can be used for good, not to harm.
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.
send a gift to Bert kreischer
You could de-nazi it. Use a Dremel/rotary tool to take off all the Nazi shit.
Use it as a cassus belli and invade Germany.
OP can you post a picture of it. I'm curious how it could be modified.
I don't have any pictures of it and can't take any right now but I have a link to a website showing the same blade.
Donate it to an Escape room or some artsy installation that's set in that time.
Paint a big red x over the symbols
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.
It's not historic, though. If that were the case, I would've 100 % agreed.
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.
You misunderstand. OP mentioned in a reply that it's a replica made post Y2K.
So, no, it's not historic. It's neo nazi shit.
Oh. Ok, no. I take back everything then. I thought is was war used.
Thats my mistake.
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.
Destroy it.
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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