So I was going through some more of my grandpa's collection and found a bunch of jewlery related to the period in which he served, some of you may remember my previous post about the things I have found. I have 3 Totenkopf honor rings, one being his and I'm assuming the other two were people that were close to him. Then I have 2 of these, I'm not sure what these were given for, I've seen repro's but this is definitely a period piece, Any ideas?
Yea, it's cool historical stuff - keep it. I'm into stuff like that.... I like WWI and WWII memorabilia - I like Nazi stuff, very interesting (No I'm not a Nazi sympathizer I just love history)..... If you ever wanted to sell that ring tho I would certainly be interested. Was that a souvenir piece your grandfather took off a Nazi? if so cool...
Errr... This is the one he always wore. And my family wasn't on the allied side of WWII, he was tried in Nuremburg and ended up not being hanged, he later went to South America and migrated north to here. I have another which he didn't wear, it's identical to it just a little more wear. If you'd be interested. But I have loads of jewlery from the period like 4 2'x3'x3' boxes full. One of the boxes is completely full of Nazi related jewlery and the other 3 (that I've found thus far, it's the entire 2nd floor of his house and the boxes in there are stacked to the ceiling all the way down the length) are filled with misc. jewlery from the period, I'm assuming it had something to do with his times working the camps. He died in 2006 I believe it was, we just found the room above his bedroom and my family told me everything in it I could keep, and there's A LOT of memorabilia, period firearms, and things of the sort. (He looted one of the armories when Berlin was falling, and hid everything he got just outside the city at his family home. He would tell me stories about the war, the things he did, and the things he believed, the things he took, etc. he enjoyed the war. He hated working the camps, and got many disciplinary write ups against him while working them. (Giving extra food to children, speaking to prisoners, etc)
You could potentially have 50K plus in memorabilia especially since it has provenance... Also, in reality a lot of the Nazi's were just kids that just followed orders - they had no choice... It was either end up in a camp yourself or die if you didn't play ball... I'm sympathetic to them and a lot of them were opposed to Hitler but they had no choice... Can you image how awful it would have been to fight in WWI or WWII? especially WWI and the trench fighting....
WWI was a war waged in ignorance, and the troops paid the toll for it. Play ball or end up on the other side of the fence. What do you think a first edition Mein Kampf signed to my grandfather from Hitler would run? He got it as a gift when he graduated from the youth troops. Part of his graduate test was strangling a German Shephard he had raised for two years with him while training.
If you seriously have Mein Kampf signed by Hitler? who knows 50k+ at auction at least... The only problem is that authentic Nazi memorabilia is taboo which is sad... I see it as history, others view such items as poison or something... But to people that value history a copy of Mein Kampf is priceless - I would say it would belong in a museum - but none would take it and actually display it. It seems you have a lot of awesome artifacts tho.. As far as WWI, well, it started as an attempted assassination, obviously the dominoes fell and well... WWI.. We will just leave it at that...
Yeah I havnt gotten through all of it yet, we've only went through his room and like 2 layers of boxes on the second floor.
