There's a gargantuan market among American white supremacists for nazi memorabilia. You could probably get a million dollars for it from whoever's running things now that Heston, Falwell, and Roberts are dead.
My other thought is "stupid kids, as a prank" and it'll be found in a barn somewhere in a few days, or installed at some high school.
*shakes head* I know about the Nazi fetishists but seriously, Auschwitz? I mean, even if you weren't spiritually inclined, I wouldn't want anything from that place near me.
I admit to nothing but might hypothetically know someone who brought home a stone from Dachau (http://theweaselking.livejournal.com/1530236.html) as a memory.
I wouldn't call Falwell, Roberts, and Heston nazis... yeah, they could be douchebags of the highest order, but not nazis. (Heston marched for civil rights, Falwell supported Israel, and Roberts... okay... maybe Roberts.)
Odd timing on this for me. I'd just lately been reading a lot of stuff about descendants of people who died at the camps objecting to the camps being opened to tourists. When I heard about this, my first thought was it must be an act of protest by such a person or group. This thought is almost certainly not what actually happened, but it was what I first thought.
It is definatly possible. Sadly, I think everyone in the world should see the camps, and see tangible proof that such an atrocity can happen when we sit back and let one step after another happen down the slippery slope to injustice and terror.
My bet is on a private collector somewhere -- this isn't exactly the sort of item you can sell at auction, unless you were very, very selective in who you let in on the opportunity.
What makes me scratch my head is the immediate assumption by Israeli politicans that this is an expression of anti-Semitism and not of greed, or some other, more complicated, motive.
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Date: 2009-12-18 05:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-12-18 05:17 pm (UTC)My other thought is "stupid kids, as a prank" and it'll be found in a barn somewhere in a few days, or installed at some high school.
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Date: 2009-12-18 05:19 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-12-18 10:23 pm (UTC)I can actually see people of jewish decent or decended from the people there wanting such a thing.
More though I think it needs to be restored, so that we can remember it. So that people never forget what happenned. what we forget we repeat.
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Date: 2009-12-18 05:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-12-18 05:51 pm (UTC)Nazis, none of them. But that doesn't change that nazi memorabilia is an industry among the stupid.
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Date: 2009-12-19 03:53 am (UTC)What makes me scratch my head is the immediate assumption by Israeli politicans that this is an expression of anti-Semitism and not of greed, or some other, more complicated, motive.
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