Guilt about SS memorabilia

Hi Lou, ill gladly do that. Ill start looking tomorrow morning and as soon as I find out what is what? ill send you that PM. I know that you will enjoy seeing some of the items as well as the main portion of my photograph collection-and that you will see these things with an open mind on them.

Take care Lou, and ill Pm you hopefully in the morning.

Best regards--Carl.

PS, if I do still have some of those pics of my items? and if you feel like posting them-that's perfectly OK too ;-))

 

Can I ask, would you feel any different if it were a wehrmact medal? Or even a soviet medal? The soviets were no saints in any way...they too commited war crimes.

If you look at it from a different point of view, it's just a piece of history. If your a collector of ww2 items, than it's a valuable artifact.

it's not like your parading around with it. It's historical evidence that the SS once existed.

The existance of any ww2 artifact (whether allies or axis) provides a testimony
for future generations to understand the impact and human tragedy of this war.
In doing so, the hope is that it will never happen again.

"Those who forget history are bound to repeat it"
- Winston Churchill

 

"Sunny971" I think that quote is a lift of one from George Santayana, if Churchill did so in those words, I apologize for this post.

Santayana's quote was: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"

Churchill may well have altered Santayana's words to his own, but that's ok. Sir Winston knew a good phrase when he saw one. He also lifted Goebbel's "Iron Curtain" line as well.

 

well I was looking for Santayana's quote on the internet, but I couldn't remember his name. When I did a search on the quote, Churchill appearently had mentioned a quote similiar to Santayana's. There are so many versions of that quote, that it's hard to say who said what.
Anyway, you guys get the point!

Thanks for the clarification.

smarty pants
lol

 

Just for your edification and pure pleasure, here is a link to a page chock full of quotes from the famous and infamous:

The Quotations Page - Your Source for Famous Quotes

That is one of my favorite spots to browse through.