What Should She Do With Nazi Toys?
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My girlfriend was given antique nazi toy soldiers from WWII including SS guards..There is even a little hitler giving a nazi salute in a car. She wants to take them to the dump to have them crushed up and destroyed. She doesn’t think they are suitable for children or anyone else.
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She’s correct that they probably aren’t suitable for children, however given their historic value she may want to consider donating them to a museum instead of destroying them. She could even put them up on Ebay and or some other auction site and at least make some money off of them. Many people collect WW2 memorabilia and that sounds like something that could be very desirable to a collector.
It’s history, something we have all learned from. They could be taken into a museum.
I’m completely against destroying them, they tell a story about how even as young kids the beliefs that they had were passed down in a way that they would grow to represent that mind set.
They are suitable for children and adults to learn a lesson about hate and what it does to a country. Please don’t destroy them, pass on the story and history.
EDIT: Breezy – Take a class in anthropology and maybe you’d understand the significance of keeping them. It is history, it is a physical piece of history. You can read about it all day long, but I know some people need physical evidence. It would be like reading about old archaeological artifact (dinosaur bones for instance) and never being able to see them physically, for some it makes it more real.
This doesn’t make you a neo-nazi, most people these days don’t even know what the true meaning of that is… please understand your history before you open your mouth.
I don’t know why people are saying keep them, its history. What are you going to learn from some toys that symbolized hatred? Who would want to have nazi toys anyways….maybe neo-nazi’s or white supremacist. If you want to know the history of nazi’s then read a book or watch a program about them. I think, she should get rid of them.
i would put them”up”…they are part of history…i wouldnt let any child play with or display them…mainly because they could be made of something dangerous,like lead……but putting them away in an attic to preserve…she could show them to her children when they are older,and when they are learning about that era….they would even be neat to use in a school project or something….hold on to them…
Why don’t you call a Holocaust museum and sell it to them and take the money to get her something with less of a bad history.
there are collectors who would pay big bucks for them, i wouldnt let my child play with them either so i would sell them to a collector of if she felt bad for taking money for them then maybe donate them to a museum
Those are antiques and will one day be worth millions. I’ll send you my address and you can send them to me before you destroy them. Please. People pay very good money for those bits of history.
Although toys like that are unsuitable for children, I own a Nazi 5 Reichmark coin from Germany.
I would call local museums and see if there is any interest. Obviously they are not appropriate for children to play with but they may be of historical interest to many.
It’s history. Destroying them changes nothing.
I would put them away and save them personally. But, then again, I love antiques (and am a bit of a history nerd).
ETA for Breezy: I am FAAAAR from being a neo-nazi or white supremacist!!!!!!! That is absolutely insane.
I wouldn’t let my son play with them, but I wouldn’t destroy them either, if you don’t want them I would try to sell them on e-bay or something, you never know what their worth!
Honestly I would sell it and maybe give the money to a charity,why not take something from the bad past and give it to good??
I agree with Nina.I would put them away.and save them.
She could try to donate them to a museum. Or just destroy them. They are little pieces of filth but they are also history.
You are correct, they are not suitable for children or anyone else.
NOOOOO! those could be worth alot of money!! not only that but they have historical vlaue!!! do not crush these things.. nobody agrees with the nazis but crushing this peice of history will do nothing.
you should slap your gf
Your girlfriend is right. Listen to her.
John, why have you been asking this question for 2 years?
Sell them to a museum.