Waffen-SS Armour in Normandy: The Combat History of SS Panzer Regiment 12 and SS Panzerjäger Abteilung 12, Normandy 1944, Based on Their Original Wa | 
#Cataloging my parents' library, which contains my grandfather's library, I came across this. Mind you, my grandfather was no Nazi; he was an officer in the OSS during World War II, working with the Free French in London.
Anyway, at some point he picked this up—a Nazi book touting the virtues of the Waffen SS—presumably to encourage volunteers for the "Charlemagne Regiment"—with lots of pictures of SS soldiers smiling, shooting, &c. Yipes.
Suet624 Yikes! 5y
tournevis Wow. 5y
TimSpalding As with other Nazi propaganda, this really raises the famous Mitchell and Webb question: Are we the baddies? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JOpPNra4bw 5y
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SqueakyChu Tim, among my dad‘s books I found a book in German about Adolf Hitler. I have no idea why he saved it as he escaped Nazi Germany as a Jewish refugee to the USA in 1938. I still save that book because he saved it. 5y
TimSpalding @squeakychu I hate that you'll never know. I'm having a lot of that these days, going through his books. A Duke librarian was at our house for two days, packing up my grandfather's papers. He was famous because he was an economist, but he was in the OSS. We found two folders of OSS memorabilia; both opened more questions than they answered. He's long dead, and my mother didn't know much about his OSS service. So it's probably really lost. 5y
TimSpalding @squeakychu I think my book is ultimately pretty explicable. They were lost in the 80s—stolen by a neighborhood child—but my grandfather also had a German officer's gun and a fancy Nazi map of the world printed on silk. Soldiers collect trophies. Perhaps refugees do too. They know whose side they were on, more than anyone. 5y
Leftcoastzen That‘s amazing!I think people who were in the war sometimes save an object.A friend of mines dad captured a nazi flag as big as a bedspread.He kept it for years ,I think someone stole it. 5y
SqueakyChu @TimSpalding Come to think of it, I remember my dad having a kitchen knife (which cut really well!) that had a an eagle head and swastika on its handle. I have no idea what happened to it, but I still have a clear memory of that knife handle. My dad was a US soldier but remained stateside as a cook. War trophies, I guess. He survived; Hitler didn‘t. (edited) 5y
TimSpalding @SqueakyChu Excellent. 5y
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