Biggest Collection of Nazi Artifacts Found in Argentina's History

[Dd714]

Originally Posted by Newfangle9

I don't like to blame inanimate objects, I'd rather blame those responsible for their use, but I've never had any desire to own or collect any Nazi items. I've owned a number of military surplus rifles in my time, but I have never been interested in owning a Mauser. Not even enough to do any research to compare them to others. I would just feel a bit creepy because of the evil associated with any of those items.

If you are familiar with misurp rifles you would certainly know that mausers were developed way before even the thought of the Nazi party existed. It's basically the foundation of the bolt action rifle when developed in the 1870s and every country seems to have a variant - Spanish Mausers, Swedish Mausers, South American Mausers. Springfield 1903's are basically mausers with a change here and there.

I assume you are talking about the German WW2 variant K98. You can get them in the surplus market for less than $500, as most are Russian refurbished captures. Some may still have the German Eagle and very small Nazi swastika although most you see now are faked. This brings up another fact that I mentioned in the history forum - Nazi memorabilia is very popular, and very expensive, but much of it is faked. There is no evil associated with an inanimate object, on the contrary perhaps you can use it as a warning and reminder to you of the evil that come from these movements and perhaps as a "war trophy" of sorts over the destruction of these movements.

[jayden22]

I don't see the appeal owning any of that.

[Yourgermanicanish]

Originally Posted by Brodi

Hidden trove of suspected Nazi artifacts found in Argentina

Interesting article, that's pretty wild. I heard rumors before that some nazis went to Argentina and Brazil but I didn't know that it was actually true.