Posted on 08/11/2021 8:18:48 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
A forthcoming sale of Nazi-related items by a Queensland, Australia auction house is being denounced by Jewish groups.
While Jewish leaders are describing the auction as “sickening,” the Gold Coast-based auction house is defending its decision to hold the auction, claiming that it is important to remember the past, the Brisbane Times reported.
Twenty-two pieces of Nazi memorabilia will be listed by Danielle Elizabeth Auctions, including an Ordnungspolizei (“order police”) uniform containing the SS symbol that is expected to sell for up to $1,500, sleeves embroidered with eagles and swastikas and swastika and skull pins from Waffen-SS hats.
Also for sale is a Star of David armband that would have been worn by Jews in either the Krakow or Drzewica ghetto.
The managing director of the auction house, Dustin Sweeny, described the seller as a Queensland octogenarian who began collecting World War II memorabilia after living in Nuremberg in the 1960s. In frail health, he decided to sell off some of his collection.
Sweeny said the main buyers of World War II artifacts are museums and argued that what the auction house was doing was legal and if people did not like it, they should call on the government to change the law.
“You can’t erase the past, and nor should you, and if it gets erased, everyone forgets what happens and it’s more likely to happen again,” he said. “We’re not promoting anything, we’re not promoting any ideology, it’s just military artefacts, and they’re not illegal.”
He added, ‘We believe in the historical value of them.”
The head of a main Australian Jewish advocacy organization disagreed and called the sale “sickening” and accused the auction house of making money from “history’s darkest crime.”
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Interesting that “These Jewish “leaders”, in 1947, had no problem with using nazi marked K-98 Mauser rifles to defend themselves from the moslem hordes.
Exactly. I've seen auctions in Britain for items, such as a Jane Austin ring in 2014, that was won by Kelley Clarkson after she outbid a museum. The next move was for the UK to ban the item from being exported out of the country. Clarkson ended up having to sell the ring to the museum, who eventually raised the funds to buy it. If they wanted it that bad, they should have had the money up-front to outbid anyone else at the auction. Instead, they manipulated the laws, to block a buyer from ever being able to possess the item.
Jane Austen ring goes on display after Kelly Clarkson sale row
The same crap goes on with shipwrecks. One country will discover a shipwreck with treasure, and then the country that the ship was originally from, will sue to get the recovered treasure, claiming it's their culture and heritage. Never mind the fact that the stuff wasn't important enough for them to conduct research, or search for the wreck themselves. They only claim it's their culture and heritage when a group from outside the country (America), who has spent all the time, money, and effort it took to discover the wreck, and it's only then that they (in this case it was Spain), who went to court, and got possession of the treasure.
It's called the spoils of war. I'm sure there's plenty of Nazi memorabilia in Russia, France, England, Canada, New Zealand, etc., as well.
I wish I could get one of those cool lampshades.
I bet you can go into a number of stores in Australia and buy a commie Chinese flag or a Che shirt or a hammer and sickle shirt.
Take a run up to the Holocaust Museum in DC - you’ll get over the cool factor pretty darned quick.
It would be nice if people on different sides realized how much they depend on each other to get their messages out.
They’ve hidden the history so well that people have honestly unaware of what the symbols look like.
Michigan inn owners take down Norwegian flag after it’s mistaken for Confederate flag
https://nypost.com/2020/07/29/norwegian-flag-removed-from-inn-after-its-mistaken-for-confederate-flag/
One notorious case, a private treasure hunter discovered a sunken Spanish galleon off the Florida coast, after years of searching and investing a small fortune, and the State of Florida hardly let him keep any of it. He ended up suing and winning.
Those “leaders” were nowhere near Mandatory Palestine in 1947. They were either fundraising, or choosing sides between factions, or ignoring the whole thing.
The people who did the fighting had to buy those Mausers on the black market in Europe, and then sneak it past the UN arms blockade, and give them to raw immigrants just arrived off the boats from the DP camps in Cyprus and elsewhere. No training, some emaciated, some with no command of modern Hebrew, just Yiddish or Lushon Koidesh.
1947, G-d was at the vanguard, not these slimy so-called “leaders”. Only He could have pulled the whole thing off, given the difficulties.
Censoring the past is rarely a good idea, regardless who’s behind it.
Damned straight. Re-writing it into twisted, one-sided myths is even worse. CRT and BLM are all about that. So are glad-hand versions of history, with no Sand Creek or Wounded Knee, and a Columbus who never did any wrong. It takes courage to see history as it really is, and a lot of careful research to re-construct the complex, flawed individuals who made it all happen, both the good and the bad, and embrace them as they were.
“GI’s were sending loot back to the US like they were mailing letters”
I think Radar got a jeep that way.
Cor. ‘e looks as pi@@ed as Andy Kapp. And Andy did ‘is bit against the Nazis.
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