Originally Posted by
JimmyHAD
It is a matter of what significance a person places on such things. I had a friend in the early 1970s who was a pilot for Delta Airlines. This, if you're old enough to remember, was when being a pilot for a major airline was big bucks. My pilot friend was of Jewish ancestry, non observant, and collected German Lugers, amongst other firearms, but primarily Lugers. He had an extensive collection and once I was over his house looking at some of his Lugers and asked him if it didn't bother him that these ...... some of them ..... were nazi ? He said that it was better "we" had theirs, than they had ours.
I bought a WW2 Mauser S-42 with the Wehrmacht stamping of the eagle over the swastika on the frame. All matching including magazine and he gave me a deal. He had told me that the WW2 Lugers are better shooters because of the redesigned firing pin, and this one was collector quality. I didn't have it 24 hours and brought it back to him. He gave me the $ back no problem. I just couldn't get over the vibe that the thing had. Had it been used to murder people ? So that was my take.
If you are watching a Mitsubishi TV, or driving one of their cars, you are using something made by the company that also made planes that bombed Pearl Harbor, Wake Island ..... you get my drift. Adolf Hitler got Ferdinand Porsche to design a "people car." They called it a Volkswagen. Small world, but I still won't own anything with a swastika on it.