Nazi items are heavily counterfeited. I would be wary of anything that is not easily traceable and that would be relatively easy to imprint / stencil / etch / whatever some kind of insignia onto.
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Nazi items are heavily counterfeited. I would be wary of anything that is not easily traceable and that would be relatively easy to imprint / stencil / etch / whatever some kind of insignia onto.
I can see your point. I personally laugh at and don't understand the need to humanize an animal much less an inanimate object. 50% of my ancestory is German but I feel no need to deny or defend what others have done. The U.S. has done some evil things but they are not me. Am I going to try to obliterate any remnant of the Roman Empire because of what they have done in the past to my relatives?
What it all boils down to, in my mind, is while we want to look forward and hope for the best we need to remember the past and try not to repeat the mistakes. Unfortunately, looking at current world events too many are blinded by the present to see either backwards or forwards.
Ideology aside, the eagle looks like it was placed by someone with little talent for faking such things. Too bad some jackass ruined some nice Henckels razors by trying to capitalize on a rather dubious historical chapter.
yeah they do look a bit sus like someone has added them or tried to take the symbols out, it would be interesting to date the blade and see if it fits the timeline the person is also selling a lot of other paraphernalia.
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on the moral side of thing im of the view that if all such things were to be destroyed then there would be no reminders of the history ect
I quite agree, Mike - amazed someone did not spot the obvious fakery earlier.
The subsequent pics posted are even more cack-handedly put together - unless you got spotty nazi teenagers with nazi crossed-eyes and nazi pebble lensed glasses toting nazi-dremels making quasi-nazi straight razors in the war years.
Lets not forget that during times of extreme desperation like the war-torn years, ordinary respectable people have little or no option but to go along with their governments and that nigh on every german razor maker, the likes of Henckels, Herder, Robert Klaas, Emil Voos, Anton Wingen and many, many others were forced to make ceremonial knives, swords and daggers for the Nazi Party. No doubt some of them were honoured to do so, but the ordinary workers did not have much of a say-so - unless they had a penchant for getting lined up and shot, that is.
In fact, you might have a nazi period razor and not even know it - unless its that one that tries to gash you at the least provocation unless Wilhelm Richard Wagner's music is playing in the background...
I jest, of course... :)
Regards,
Neil