Thursday, February 01, 2007

Relics of a Past Tyranny

When Bro isn't lecturing me about religion, he can be an interesting guy. He recently was given this authentic Nazi helmet from one of his customers. The customer had it laying around on his workbench for years and doesn't even remember where he got it. Bro took it home and looked on the internet and found out it's worth $1,500!

Our Uncle Theo was in the invasion of Normandy in 1945 and returned from the war with a suitcase full of Nazi memoribilia, including a black Nazi helmet. I have possession of that one. Since Bro had to research his new relic, he found information about Uncle's war prize as well. Uncle's helmet was a Nazi Police helmet, not a combat helmet. It's also worth around $1,500. We got the helmet in 1957 right after Uncle Theo died and I have kept it carefully preserved since then. It is in far better shape than most Nazi helmets. Unc's helmet is below.



















Unc's helmet is not for sale for any price.

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