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I am a beginning collector and very amateur, so I am looking for your expert opinions and help with this one. I recently purchased these armbands on an auction, and can’t seem to find a few of them no matter how hard I look for them. Also, it would be reassuring (or possibly not) to know if they are, in fact, authentic. I didn’t want to overload you with images, so if need be I can certainly add more pictures for review. As far as I can tell from my research, they appear authentic, but due to how reasonable I got the set, it makes me nervous (and would make me mad I didnt buy more things on the sale, which I didn’t for this exact reason). As always, thank you for your help and insight, I appreciate it!

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Hello folks.

Here’s a story that cropped up in the news earlier today. Another case of political correctness overriding common sense. Seems things like this are becoming more and more common:

A MARKET trader of war memorabilia has been suspended after protests over a Nazi flag on his stall. The huge black swastika prompted 48,659 people to sign a petition demanding town council leaders ban “flags of fascism”. Outrage erupted after it was seen at a collectors’ market in Leek, Staffs. Campaigner Jo Coulson, 39, who handed in the petition, said: “This abhorrent symbol represents murder and genocide.”
Mayor Brian Johnson said after receiving the document: “I don’t believe in censorship. "Rightly or wrongly, the Nazi flag is a part of our history.” Campaigners are now calling for his resignation. The market’s operator Archer Fairs Ltd suspended the unidentified trader until further notice.

Seems people are making a mountain out of a molehill. Nearly 49,000 people, to be exact. Would it not be obvious, in the context of everything else he’s selling, why the flag is there? And I do wonder, if he had hung a hammer and sickle or Imperial Japanese battle flag in the same spot, would these same people have demanded the banning of ‘flags of communism’ or ‘flags of imperialism?’ Never mind that those symbols are as representative of murder and genocide as the Hakenkreuz.

Of course, the result of the German elections and other recent events might mean that people are currently very sensitive to such symbols, but it seems to me — and I’m sure to most of you — a complete overreaction to something utterly mundane and not at all sinister. It is important that the more unpalatable parts of history are kept in the light, so that they do not fester and grow in the dark. To censor these things, to turn a blind eye to the horrors of the past, would be to disregard the lessons they teach us and prepare ourselves to repeat them.

Link to the article, if you can stand reading the Sun: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/456493…der-nazi-flag/

Opinions, folks?

Regards, B.B.

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