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I own a long dagger/short sword. The hilt is in the design of the German eagle with its wings spread out as the hand guard and in the middle of the hand guard is a swastika. The scabbard is also adorned with swastikas on the top, mid section, and bottom.

I don't want to own this piece as I don't want to be seen as a Nazi sympathizer or anything of the sort, but I don't want to sell it to someone who actually is a Nazi sympathizer or something like that.

What do I do with it besides trash it? I don't want to trash it because it's decent quality. It's not historic in any way (which disturbs me to think about) but it's well made.

What can I do with it?

*The item in question is not historical

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

You could de-nazi it. Use a Dremel/rotary tool to take off all the Nazi shit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Use it as a cassus belli and invade Germany.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

OP can you post a picture of it. I'm curious how it could be modified.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You should destroy history because when you do, it's like it never happened(and will never happen again) /s

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Stab a Nazi with it.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Since it's not genuine, I'd just destroy it. I think real historical artifacts have their place in museums for educational purposes. Reproduction Nazi memorabilia isn't worth shit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

It wasn't clear to me from the post that it isn't genuine. I interpreted the post to mean that it wasn't famous in some way, just a standard issue dagger, but that it wasn't a reproduction.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Donate it to a museum with a sterling reputation or destroy it. Sounds like there's no value to a museum, so that leaves one option. Take it to someone who can melt it down in front of you to make sure it's not sold on a black market.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

My mom & her brothers were arguing over family silverware. The older of my two uncles just took the silverware case & disappeared with it.

That year for Christmas, every immediate family received a custom made ring made from the melted silverware.

They’re not anything valuable. They look handmade & some of the pieces were outright ugly, but it worked.

We all still have that silverware & it means a lot to all of us.

To OP, completely understand you might not want jewelry made from a nazi knife, but maybe there’s an option to do something worthwhile while that melted metal, rather than just scrapping it?

If nothing else, you could encase a copy of mein kampf in the metal & have a fancy ass doorstop you can kick around.

“Is that a brick of silver holding your door open?”

“Nope. It’s a deactivated copy of that hitler book.”

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

lots of collectors that aren't Nazis, maybe sell it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

The real trick is in finding the genuine collector, and not just another Nazi in a collector’s Trenchcoat.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Take a Dremel to it and turn it into something that isn't problematic. Or paint it rainbow and confuse the fuck out of anyone that visits you.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

But it’s ok to have a little fun when you do.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Keep it like it is, and make a point to explain to anybody what your views are. I understand you not wanting to be considered a Nazi, but it is still ab almost 100 years old piece of history and I think it would be a pity to trash it.

Never forget history, means also keep "historic memorabilia". There is nothing bad in keeping a piece of history, good or bad, it's all our history and we should always be wary of trying to " trash it ".

Edit: you should edit your post and specify its not original. Them just trash it or melt if you can use the materials.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Seconded.

We can collect historic pieces because they have a value, even if that value is describing some of the worst aspects of history in order to remember them so we don’t repeat it.

A fake piece? I don't understand the market for that. If it was a movie prop or for a legit reenactment group (as in not nazis), it could have some value, but as a generic fake someone wanted to own a Nazi thing and someone else wanted to make a Nazi thing for profit. I would have a hard time keeping that around. There’s no positives to it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

melt it down and turn it into some anti-fascist art.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

There was a similae IASIP episode

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

send a gift to Bert kreischer

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Paint a big red x over the symbols

[–] [email protected] 72 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Destroy it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

Read enough comments to learn it's a replica. Got a talented buddy with lathe? They might be able to transmorgify it into something very different, maybe even cool-looking.

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