Nazi Military Memorabilia: Unusual Hobby or Sick Fetish?

Mother Mary with the Holy Child Jesus Christ, Oil/canvas, 1913 by Adolf Hitler

From The Danger Room:

Is collecting Nazi war memorabilia an unusual hobby, a fetish, or a sign of anti-Semitic bias? This is, in part, the question that looms over a Human Rights Watch employee who was suspended this week, after his dedicated enthusiasm for collecting Nazi military relics was publicized by a blog.

Marc Garlasco, a former Pentagon official involved in targeting, rose to prominence as a senior military analyst at Human Rights Watch, looking at, among other things, Israel’s use of white phosphorous during Operation Cast Lead. Garlasco has also worked on reports looking at civilian casualties in conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Georgia, among others. In his private life, he also pursued an avid interest in World War II and Nazi memorabilia, and published a full-length book, The Flak Badges of the Luftwaffe and Heer.

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My Comment: I do not know the details of this case, but it appears to be the the political correction crowd running amok.

My father was a Soviet soldier who fought against the Nazis from 1941 to 1945. He witnessed all the brutality and mass murder that these monsters committed in Eastern Europe. He suffered terrible wounds from the war, and he never was able to fully forgive the German people for what they did.

But even with this history, my father was also an avid collector of anything Hitler to the point that he even mortgaged our home to go to an auction to buy one of the many paintings that Hitler had made when he was young.

I am sure that a good psychiatrist would have an explanation for all of this .... but being a Nazi sympathizer is certainly not one of them.