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
You could de-nazi it. Use a Dremel/rotary tool to take off all the Nazi shit.
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I’m really curious how you got it.
I honestly can’t remember as a lot of blades pass through my hands but I think it was a gift 🤷♂️
Edit: It was my sister. The blade was her exes and she didn’t want to keep it due to obvious reasons.
a lot of blades pass through my hands
The plot thickens!
I’ve handled all kinds of blades from farming tools to pole arms
I have a side gig sharpening knives and swords for people 😅
That’s pretty cool!
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Put sockets in it and insert some gems to give it properties like fire damage or life steal.
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.
Does MTG know that it’s missing from her house yet?
Watch It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia S01E06
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.
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.”
Destroy it.
If it’s not of historic significance? Modify it.
Know anyone who does metal work? Ask them to change it to something interesting.
Got a Dremel? Buff away the Nazi bits until it’s smooth metal.
There are lots of different ways to change it!
And if you know anyone who does leather work, they can remove or replace the nasty bits on the scabbard.
Seconding the dremmel approach. Worst case scenario: You destroy a nazi sword. Best case: You end up with with a cool denazified sword.
Grind down the swastika, and change to a smaller grit to get a nice and polished finish.
Not sure, but I think the eagle predates the nazis.
EDIT: Nope, the eagle is also a nazi and needs a dremel. There, that’s gotta be a brand new sentence.
EDIT2: Seems to be one of the many symbols that have been hijacked by nazis. Keep at your own risk.
The eagle as a symbol predates the nazis - a lot. The „Reichsadler“ has been used since 800 A.D. as in the region that is now Germany:
The Reichsadler, i. e. the German Imperial Eagle, originated from a proto-heraldic emblem that was believed to have been used by Charlemagne, the first Frankish ruler whom the Pope crowned as Holy Roman Emperor in AD 800, and derived ultimately from the Aquila, i. e. eagle standard, of the ancient Roman army.
Edit: of course the Nazis twisted this as well. To decide, if the eagle has to go, we need more details:
During Nazi rule, a stylised eagle combined with the Nazi swastika was made the national emblem (Hoheitszeichen) by order of Adolf Hitler in 1935.
Despite its medieval origin, the term “Reichsadler” in common English understanding is mostly associated with this specific Nazi-era version. The Nazi Party had used a very similar symbol for itself, called the Parteiadler (“Party’s eagle”). These two insignia can be distinguished as the Reichsadler looks to its right shoulder whereas the Parteiadler looks to its left shoulder.
Of course the swastika itself is also much older than the Nazis. They ruined plenty of otherwise fine symbolism.
This is probably what I’m gonna end up doing.
I was just hoping someone could come up with something that wouldn’t involve damaging anything? Idk I don’t want to damage it but I don’t want it to exist 😅
A craftsmen wouldn’t be damaging it, they’d be modifying it to make it more useful to you.
It’s already damaged with all of that Nazi shit, you would be fixing it by removing it all.
You should destroy history because when you do, it’s like it never happened(and will never happen again) /s
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.
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Donate it to a museum.
It belongs in a museum!
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I know the gutteral instinct is to burn it, or melt it down. But I think you should donate it to your local history muesem. This applies for all war stuff you have, not just nazi stuff.
I think its important for all generations to not be allowed to forget what did happen, and what could absolutely happen again if we forget.
Sure, it’s “your” sword, but I just feel like it should serve a more important purpose.
It’s not historic, though. If that were the case, I would’ve 100 % agreed.
All war used uniforms/weapons/equipment I’d say is historic. Even if it was just a helmet used in the civil war, or a soldiers flask in WWI.
It may not be individually a talking point for something historic, but it shows what they used at the time. Especially if you have multiple pieces from the same time period.
And as time goes on, it gets more important. Because as time moves forward, and we have so many advancements in our world, this piece will not advance. Always a visualisation of its time.
Right now I don’t think anyone would consider pieces from the afghanistan war to be “historic”, but the things we currently see as modern, will be relics in 100 years.
We’re barely and I mean BARELY getting to that point of the Viet Nam war pieces seeming as relics.
I think a good rule of thumb is “if the soldiers who would have used the item would have died of old age by now, THEN it’s a relic.”
Which this certainly is. Which is why I think it should be in a glass case, with a little description on its history.
You misunderstand. OP mentioned in a reply that it’s a replica made post Y2K.
So, no, it’s not historic. It’s neo nazi shit.
Oh. Ok, no. I take back everything then. I thought is was war used.
Thats my mistake.
I concur with the dremel approach. Grind the shenanigans off and proceed as usual. Bonus spitepoints if you do antifa logo or something.
They could just draw three arrows on top of the swastika
