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Nazi relics for sale: Paratrooper's helmet, signed photo of Hitler and Rudolf Hess
New Zealand: Nazi paraphernalia going under the hammer at Dunbar Sloane's militaria auction include an officer's peaked cap, a Luftwaffe helmet and 2 brooches - all emblazoned with Nazi Germany's eagle and swastika emblems. A German paratrooper's helmet from Crete (worth $3500-$5000) was also among the offerings, auctioneer Bettina Frith said. The most sensational item is the personally signed photograph of Adolf Hitler and his 1930s deputy Rudolf Hess. The photo, which has been set up for sale before without success, is worth $2000-$4000.     [ stuff :: 2008-03-07 :: WWII, Nazi Helmets ]

WWII veteran gives up box of Japanese militaria: sniper rifle, helmet
As a Marine during World War II, Pvt. Tom Panouses took a gamble: He packed away Japanese rifles and other militaria, placed them inside a box and put it in the mail. To his surprise the box made it to his home. Now those war treasures will be on public display, as he presented them to the Brevard Veterans Memorial Center Museum. A display at the museum will show off a 6.5 mm Japanese sniper rifle, two other rifles with a bayonet, a Japanese steel helmet, a compass, the grenade shell, Marine uniform jacket, insignias and pins. Most were collected in the area of Shuri Ridge in Okinawa where Panouses was serving with the 5th Regiment of the 1st Marine Division.     [ floridatoday :: 2007-11-15 :: WWII, Nazi Helmets ]

The National Soldier Factory - Military surplus and Army-Navy store
National Soldier Factory owner Karl Anderson spends many of his days surrounded by flak vests, steel helmets, bayonets and fatigues. As many military surplus and Army-Navy stores fade away like old soldiers, he forges ahead, surrounded by artifacts reaching far back into military history. His customers are re-enactors, collectors, paint-ball enthusiasts. One man sifted through Army field manuals about booby traps and guerilla warfare. Two students sifted through old uniforms. Anderson likes to keep military gear "nonpartisan" - keeping the Nazi stuff to a minimum. His family owns an American flag that flew over Pearl Harbor during the WWII attack there.     [ eveningsun :: 2007-10-03 :: Collectors, Memorabilia and Militaria ]

WWII helmets found in Olympic park
Archaeologists have discovered relics from World War 2 on the Olympic park construction site. A joint team from the Museum of London and Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd found WW2 helmets and other items of historical interest while uncovering a battery of gun emplacements in the north-east of the site. In 1941, 4 gun emplacements were built on the area that will house the velopark for the 2012 Games. The emplacements were furnished with 4.5 inch guns, and were updated in 1944 with bigger guns. Researchers will trace the history of the helmets and the soldiers who operated the defences.     [ wansteadandwoodfordguardian :: 2007-06-08 :: WWII, Nazi Helmets ]

How old is that helmet? It might be collectible
As we salute the veterans this Memorial Day weekend, it seems a good time to write about one of the most interesting types of collectibles - military memorabilia. I've talked with many collectors of militaria and each one can recite a story that goes with the collection. I recall a conversation with collector Larry Stewart. "It was the Pickelhaube that started me on my way to collecting. When I was a youngster, my father presented me with my very own Pickelhaube," he said. What is a Pickelhaube? You have probably seen one at one time or another. It was primarily ceremonial, and many refer to them as a German spiked helmet.     [ azcentral :: 2007-05-26 :: WWII, Nazi Helmets ]

Marines dig up world war II soldiers' remains
Personal effects and human bones of American soldiers who died in World War II were found by the U.S. Marine's Recovery Teams at 3 excavation sites in the Saruwaga Mountains of Nawaeb district in Morobe province. 3 recovery teams from the Joint Prisoners of War/Missing in Action Accounting Command have been in the country for the last two months, excavating possible sites of American war planes that crashed into the mountains 1940-1944. "We have found these glass frames, some dollars, parachutes, helmets, watch buckle, boot and jacket buttons, key, ring and headset radio but we are yet to verify the owner."     [ thenational :: 2007-03-05 :: RIP (remains of soldiers) ]

Nazi Helmet Myths
In WWII the German helmet became the ubiquitous black hat. It was also regarded as the best designed military helmet. Our modern Kevlar helmet follows the same lines as the German M35. While the armies of other nations have emulated the original GI or Soviet models, the US adopted a new helmet with the side skirt and squared top of the prototypical Nazi headgear. The Nazi/US helmet offers superior protection at the expense of a soldier's peripheral view. Nazi paratroopers and elite shock troops wore a more practical helmet, a decidedly ordinary straight bowl.     [ notmytribe :: 2006-09-11 :: WWII, Nazi Helmets ]

Ghouls loot war graves and battlefields for medals, helmets
Thieves are looting graves of German soldiers killed in World War II and selling body parts on the internet. The ghouls are digging up Russian battlefields where many of the two million dead are buried in hope of a military memorabilia. And a sinister black market has grown on US auction websites for uniforms, medals, bones and even helmets with the skulls still inside.     [ dailyrecord :: 2006-05-26 :: Relic Hunters: Hidden Nazi & War treasures ]

Dutch Company Selling Nazi Helmets As Joke
A Dutch company is selling replica Nazi helmets bearing pro-Dutch slogans in an early attempt to cash in on German-Dutch rivalry going into this summer's World Cup in Germany. The orange plastic helmets, which cost euro5 (US$6), have small Dutch flags printed on the side and bear slogans such as "Attack!" and "Go, Netherlands Go" in Dutch. The Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during WWII is still a sensitive subject 60 years later.     [ abcnews :: 2006-01-11 :: WWII, Nazi Helmets ]

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'SS, Nazi Daggers'

'Waffen-SS'

'Wehrmacht'

'WWII Weapons'

'Nazi, SS Uniforms'.

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