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06-20-2017, 06:06 PM | #1 |
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Police find hidden trove of Nazi artifacts in Argentina including P-08s!
In the video there are multiple presentation Lugers in display cases!
At the 3:09 mark two P-08s are seen in the background and and a close up of one at the 3:25 mark, followed by multiple views from the 4:59 till the end of video mark! http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/20/americ...rnd/index.html https://youtu.be/Z5LoIKwoDs8
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Can you imagine what all that would bring on Ebay?
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This is mostly locally produced "fantasy crap". Very few of the prominent "Nazi artefacts" shown are pre 1945.
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I was wondering that.
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I"m wondering - "what's the big deal"?
I doubt that stuff is illegal in Argentina- well maybe the pistols. Why were they looking? I agree , a lot looks like fantasy junque to me.
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06-20-2017, 11:06 PM | #6 |
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They said they thought he was dealing in illegal art work.
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NAZI propaganda articles appear to be illegal in Argentina, the man in the video said so.
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Implying that the owner was spreading "Nazi" propaganda? Thanks.
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Gee Don, if he had them in a hidden room, would be hard to say he was spreading
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Why would" they" be in or know of a "hidden" room? Kind of like those "arsenals" in homes "they" find from time to time- the owner had to be doing something else to come to the attention of the authorities.
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I really liked the case of harmonicas.
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Here's another write on the story:
https://www.jta.org/2017/06/20/news-...-investigators Apparently the objects will be donated to a Holocost museum in Argentina. There were antiquity objects found in the cache. The discovery was related to an Interpol program on trafficking in illicit objects called "Operation Far East": https://www.interpol.int/Crime-areas...ing/Operations BTW, the hidden room apparently had an exterior window... There were stories of submarines carrying 3rd Reich officials and treasure to Argentina's coast at the end of the war. I suppose that the only way to authenticate this stuff would be contemporary photographs showing objects.
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Wow!!
among all that stuff- two engraved presentation P08's.... How often does one find something like this? WHo knows what lies under the foundations of Berlin? |
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Probably dirt.
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Ah well..... you never know.....
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Nazis??? Or liberals??? Or is that redundant???
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typical media hype and BS, a "hidden" room with a window- what will they think of next. Nazi's were welcome in Argentina at one time- I don't know when that policy ended- but there is probably a lot of genuine stuff really "hidden" there.
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Depp should have gotten at least an Oscar nomination for it. But no Nazis...and no Lugers...
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