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Where did the pics go, Topper? Can't see why anyone would take exception to the German helmet. After all, I've posted pics of one myself. As for mementos, emblazoned with the swastika, if it's for modelling and detail accuracy, it's absolutely fine. We don't have the German embargo on them here. Nor are we glorifying War, nor the unthinkable atrocities committed in it.
Pics of medals, insignia, uniform apparel, even weapons (deactivated) all help modelmakers to get the most authentic details they need.

Indeed, Topper, I was hoping to see those pictures. too, as reference sources. When I was young, I played "Army guys" with the neighborhood boys, built models (badly), and perfected my "ack-ack-ack" sounds. Nonetheless, others have said I have pacifistic leanings, and the Vietnam War nearly drove me nuts. Yet I was not even there---though I sure do support the others who did get drafted or enlisted, and I have long admired my late father for his four years in the South Pacific ('42-'46). Do not fear; no Nazi here. I have found this discussion list be about goodwill to anyone who participates in the same spirit.

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...and a very impressive collection to boot.
A good M42 or M43 Stahlhelm , with genuine decals, can fetch a tidy price these days. I have an M43 pattern helmet, with an unusual leather liner (more 'fingers' than usual)- but it's without decals. Not all helmets had them.

Besides the appearance of the helmets, which I do not recall ever seeing, I did not know the initialism "NSKK." If anyone else is puzzled, it's Nationalsozialistisches Kraftfahrkorps.

Here's a short explanation from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_ ... otor_Corps

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Modelling (here, anyway) now embraces: scale battlefields; period backdrops; tank riders and other figures; military trucks; scale weaponry; V2s; ships; 'planes and much more besides. Popular diorama accessories commonly include: period flags, pennants, specialised decals, weapons, guard towers, even miniature newspapers!. Images of contemporary insignia, artefacts, and more can only serve to help modeller's make more detailed authentic tableaux, battlefields, vehicles etc. In fact, it would be impossible to create any model setting involving WW2 German soldiers, where the swastika doesn't appear, for example (if only on campaign badges and military caps). ME Bf 109's would look incomplete without one.
So long as you're not recommending a new rally at Nuremburg, or that we sing the Horst Wessel Lied, I'm sure you'll be fine

Incidentally, many years ago (1980s), I was visiting Bavaria with a close German friend (now retired from the Hamburg police...). Whilst enjoying some enormous krugs full of the local beer, we saw salt and pepper-haired males gathering for an invitation-only meeting, in the hotel's hall.
We had a faint inkling of what it might be; but after hearing much distant chinking of glasses, toasts, raised enthusiastic voices, and music- we finally heard the Kameraden break spontaneously into the Horst Wessel Lied... Chances are, they're all dead now....
So, we concern ourselves with the objects wars create, and the pleasure of modelling those objects and machines. not the underlying- and often incomprehensible politics behind them.

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