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29/09/2024 11:26 am
The Eva Braun Mercedes-Benz is actually a lovely car: classically Mercedes, but modern with it. With the colour film of her 'teasing' Adolf on the terrace of their Berchtesgaden home, skipping and doing hand-stands, the car tells us something we might not think - rather than something we already know well. ABC Brianza did a nice 1/43 which I have yet to get.
29/09/2024 1:26 pm
29/09/2024 3:20 pm
@mikedetorrice Absurd! I believe even in Germany - where they have strict laws on lauding the Third Reich - they distinguish between historic value and celebration.
Do we know in which country the CompuServe suit was served ( 😀 ) ?
I am not sure where this objection or lawsuit was originated, Charles, but I recall their ultimately successful defense pointed out they, as a world-wide internet service, could never cater to or allow for all individual allowances around the planet. The making, or showing or publication of such an object or image doesn't necessarily indicate approval of the apparent philosophy behind it at all.
29/09/2024 4:14 pm
that because something is historically accurate, does not mean you're embracing the ideology it represents.
Precisely....
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29/09/2024 4:19 pm
Pics or replicas of WW II German tanks, trucks, planes, etc. are some-how perceived as less treating and connote far less anxiety vs. photos or models of WW II German cars (staff cars ). They ignite profound visceral reactions, for reasons which are not entirely clear; I can only theorize.
I think there is a difference. Germany, militarily, is a country that was at war with other countries. That's (unfortunately) not an uncommon occurrence.
The SS of the Nazi Party was engaged in a systematic attempt to extinguish entire ethnic groups, one of which I am a member.
That's why to me, the military vehicles are tolerable to see and discuss, but I can't help but react negatively to seeing the staff cars oohed and aahed over.
No offense taken whatsoever, but maybe I helped explain it a little.
Barry Levittan
Long Island, NY
29/09/2024 5:16 pm
A wonderful model no matter the history.
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29/09/2024 6:23 pm
No offense taken whatsoever, but maybe I helped explain it a little.
Understandable for sure Barry and one of the very reasons I suspected possible for such ambivalent emotion. Furthermore, I think you'll agree that although occasionally painful to view, historically authentic replicas afford additional reminders, in their small way, of what once was. As you are no doubt aware.... if we, as a people, don't understand & learn from our mistakes, we are doomed to repeat them. In the case of Nazi genocide, that must never happen.
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