Thread: Nazi blades

So there was a few of these in the local paper the other day for some ridicules price like $200 a blade does anyone want to own up to owning one? aside from the whole Nazi thing I imagine they would be a good quality.

these were not the ones for sale those ones were marked in a similar fashion with the little metal bit but it had SS symbol and a helmet with a swastika

Im sure that the quality is there, no doubt, but having this logo and what it represents, i wouldnt touch that with a 10 foot pole!

Not for me and will not do business with the person who has them.

Maybe if some has extra funds buy them and melt them into slag and throw them in the deepest part of the ocean.

Well, I do have a Globusmen , but is not adorned with any Nazi-ness. I'm sure they may shave fine, but, if it were offered to you Hitler's barbers gear, would you accept/buy?

I would have no problem having one of these other than price. I don't agree with or endorse the ideology that they might represent but melting them gains nothing other than trying to hide the past. If one person learns about an evil thing by seeing an object and hearing the history that it represents it is well worth conserving.

Since provenance is everything, as antique dealers are wont to say, emphatically no! Since we, as humans, tend to humanize anything and everything we come in contact with (a hot car is a 'she'/we see human traits in our animals/I gave a new brush a woman's name) in order to feel more connected to it. Owning something with that connection would be one of betrayal to my ancestry and an insult to common decency. All that said, I own a number of German made razors, including a Max Dorner (good little shaver) that, as I read somewhere, had a number of razors out with the swazstica engraved on them. With out the symbols or provenance the objects are neutral in all respects, open to our interpretaion for our own reasons.

Once dropped. Lightly used.

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.