Thomas78
Well-known
Strange enought, the access to this item is banned "because of legal terms" at the german ebay site (ebay.de) but I can view it through ebay.com...
Michael Markey
Veteran
An interesting yet at the same time sobering find.
A grave relic belonging to somebodies son.
Maybe a museum would be a more fitting and instructive place than E Bay.
A grave relic belonging to somebodies son.
Maybe a museum would be a more fitting and instructive place than E Bay.
colyn
ישו משיח
I knew there was something I was forgetting...............
david werbeloff
Member
Kurland Leica
Kurland Leica
I think we all know what that Leica saw in that place, and it wasn't pretty and it didn't fit the definition of what the Geneva Convention thinks is the proper conduct of war... Best, David
Kurland Leica
I think we all know what that Leica saw in that place, and it wasn't pretty and it didn't fit the definition of what the Geneva Convention thinks is the proper conduct of war... Best, David
blauvelt
clicking in the dark
Interesting inference David, why do you say that? I searched "Kurland" on google and came back with a battlefield on near the Latvian/Lithuanian/Finish border
I then researched what the battle of "Kurland" was and what may have happened:
http://www.wehrmacht-awards.com/campaign_awards/cufftitles/kurland/campaign/kurtland_campaign.htm
in the end, it is literally the end, as the battle ends around May 8th of 1945.
jarski
Veteran
goamules
Well-known
I've got to say, this post got me researching what I'll call grave robbers. There are whole forums dedicated to the finds people are making digging up WWII battlefields in Europe. And just as in the US Civil War battlefield digging a few decades ago, some people are tying to identify war remains, and some are just looking for booty. As a surface hunter in the US for arrowheads, I find it very distasteful when I see the skulls being pulled out of helmets, and soldier's awarded metals being pulled from decomposing bodies, that end up for sale on ebay.
These people died in battle only a few decades ago, and it's conceivable their buddies and families who survived may be watching all this grave robbing. It has happened all through time, as new generations go looking for buried treasure, be it Egyptian, Viking, American Indian sites. But something from just one generation ago is somehow worse, to me.
These people died in battle only a few decades ago, and it's conceivable their buddies and families who survived may be watching all this grave robbing. It has happened all through time, as new generations go looking for buried treasure, be it Egyptian, Viking, American Indian sites. But something from just one generation ago is somehow worse, to me.
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
This camera has forty five minutes to go and it's up to $230.00 ... it will be interesting to see where it finishes.
The thing I don't get is there actual verification that this camera came from where the seller says it did? His items are all of a similar nature but to be honest I don't know what people see in this stuff because to me it's merely an association with the absolute stupidty of war.
The thing I don't get is there actual verification that this camera came from where the seller says it did? His items are all of a similar nature but to be honest I don't know what people see in this stuff because to me it's merely an association with the absolute stupidty of war.
Keith
The best camera is one that still works!
Well ... $380.00! 
That's about what a really clean, working original version would go for.
Of course this makes a complete mockery of all those 'Should I get my Leica CLAd before I sell it or sell it as is?' threads!
That's about what a really clean, working original version would go for. Of course this makes a complete mockery of all those 'Should I get my Leica CLAd before I sell it or sell it as is?' threads!