Would you really show this off?

[Morca007]

I don't think I could own, much less use, anything associated with that regime.

 

[Argenticien]

I understand the urge to be a "completist," since I have been one as regards music. (i.e., must own every conceivable regular, live, bootleg, and import record by whatever band.) So logically to be a fully successful Leica completist, you'd need the various Luftwaffe Leicas. So I certainly don't assume that anyone who owns one is a neo-Nazi. But I'd second Matt's vote, that I'd have a hard time (myself, having half Jewish background) owning a Nazi anything, even if historically significant, valuable, taken as souvenir by an Allied soldier, etc. Quite apart from that, I'd worry about being assaulted if I walked about with such a thing (real or fake) showing such insignia.

Thus it was with great surprise that I saw in the latest KEH print catalog just such an item with the insignia on the lens cap. (Fake if I recall correctly, but still I'd expect a reputable shop not to carry Nazi memorabilia.) Isn't this stuff in fact illegal in some countries? (Here in USA where "free speech" trumps sound policy, of course it isn't.)

--Dave

 

[parsec1]

Thats a very good point. Perhaps someone will correct me but I thought thats how Leitz Canada came about as vulnerable workers were moved there.Maybe thats just 'one of those stories'.

 

[Spider67]

Swastikas are verboten in Germany to that extent that even Anti Nazi stickrs showing a "forbidden" sign containing a swastika or a dispose of litter sign with a sw. in it have been seized bz the authoroties (The same for arplane kits of WW II fighters).
In Austria you'll have a problem with thge authorities if thez are shown in a Neo Nazi context.
Whereas Swastikas on Posters for an exhibition of art despised bz the Nazis are OK.

 

[Prosaic]

I dont even see a Swastika there, but whatever...

 

[b.espahbod]

that Kamera is original as a NeoNazi skinhead with red hair dye and piercings!! a Nazi Wannabe