Admiration vs. Glorification

[Matt]

This is why I have "denazified" all of my Third Reich memorabilia. On my Lugers and other "Nazi" guns, I filed off the swastikas and touched up the metal with cold blue. I even scraped the swastika stampings off the backs of my holsters. I also filed off the swastika on my Wehrmacht "Gott Mit Uns" belt buckle. As far as my Nazi Kreigsflagge, I just cut the swastika out. I now no longer have to worry about someone mistakenly believing I am a Nazi because I collect WWII memorabilia. Now, my artifacts are politically correct.

Funny though, for the last two years I have taken a bunch of WW II items to a local elementary school for show and tell. These included items (before I denazified them) that had swastikas. None of the teachers or students seemed to think I was a Nazi for having these items.