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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4942414, member: 110504&quot;][USER=112342]@JayAg47[/USER], one thing about what you said that really resonates is the kind of vibe you can get from objects with particularly nefarious connotations.&nbsp; --Especially recent ones; the 20th century emphatically included.&nbsp; </p><p>I admire, but can&#039;t really relate to Jewish dealers and collectors who specialize, to any degree, in stuff from the Holocaust.&nbsp; You&#039;d have to be that well-rested, every single day.&nbsp; ...When I was a kid, the family spent half a summer in western (still, and emphatically) Germany, mostly sponging off a very naturalized aunt and her native husband.&nbsp; I fell into an SS helmet, intact except for the lining and the &#039;SS&#039; device scratched off of one of the shields on either side of it.&nbsp; I was wearing that thing.&nbsp; ...Eventually, I had to get rid of it.</p><p>Fast forward to a nominal graduate program I was pursuing, at an equally nominal state university.&nbsp; I was looking in the history section of the local public library, and found a tract on one of the shelves, from a local white supremacist group.&nbsp; --Very much like religious tracts, replete with lots of abuse of Scripture.&nbsp; I took it home, and seriously considered keeping it, as more or less the citizen&#039;s-arrest equivalent of state&#039;s evidence.&nbsp; But, Yeah, I had to toss it.&nbsp; ...Might&#039;ve burned it.</p><p>...Anyway, can&#039;t comment on any causal relation, but just on emotional levels, this kind of stuff can be more evocative than some of us need.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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