derspiess will want to avoid traveling to Argentina in the near future till this has blown over. :ph34r:
(Yes, Daily Wail, they seemed tot have the most pictures)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4620296/Largest-hidden-trove-Nazi-artifacts-Argentina.html
QuoteNazi medical equipment, knives covered in Swastikas and busts of Hitler: Argentina's largest ever trove of Third Reich artifacts is found hidden inside a house's secret room
In a hidden room in a house near Argentina's capital, police believe they have found the biggest collection of Nazi artifacts in the country's history.
A total of 75 of objects of Nazi paraphernalia were found at a collector's home in the town of Beccar, a suburb of Buenos Aires, including a bust relief of Adolf Hitler, magnifying glasses inside elegant boxes with swastikas and even a macabre medical device used to measure head size.
The device used to measure head size was part of the logic of identifying those not of the Aryan race. Agent raiding the collectors home noticed a large bookshelf and found behind it a hidden passageway to a room filled with Nazi imagery.
Authorities say they suspect the items are originals that belonged to high-ranking Nazis in Germany during World War II.
'Our first investigations indicate that these are original pieces,' Argentine Security Minister Patricia Bullrich said Monday. Some pieces were accompanied by old photographs. 'This is a way to commercialize them, showing that they were used by the horror, by the Fuhrer. There are photos of him with the objects.'
Among the disturbing collection were toys that Bullrich said would have been used to indoctrinate children, a large statue of the Nazi Eagle above a swastika, a Nazi hourglass and a box of harmonicas.
Police say one of the most-compelling pieces of evidence of the historical importance of the find is a photo negative of Hitler holding a magnifying glass similar to those found in the boxes.
'We have turned to historians and they've told us it is the original magnifying glass' that Hitler was using, said Nestor Roncaglia, head of Argentina's federal police. 'We are reaching out to international experts to deepen' the investigation.
The investigation that culminated in the discovery of the collection began when authorities found artworks of illicit origin in a gallery in north Buenos Aires.
Agents with the international police force Interpol began following the collector and with a judicial order raided the house on June 8.
Authorities did not identify the collector who remains free but under investigation by a federal judge.
'There are no precedents for a find like this. Pieces are stolen or are imitations. But this is original and we have to get to the bottom of it,' said Roncaglia.
Police are trying to determine how the artifacts entered Argentina.
The main hypothesis among investigators and member of Argentina's Jewish community is that they were brought to Argentina by a high-ranking Nazi or Nazis after World War II, when the South American country became a refuge for fleeing war criminals, including some of the best known.
As leading members of Hitler's Third Reich were put on trial for war crimes, Josef Mengele fled to Argentina and lived in Buenos Aires for a decade. He moved to Paraguay after Israeli Mossad agents captured Holocaust mastermind Adolf Eichmann, who was also living in Buenos Aires.
Mengele later died in Brazil in 1979 while swimming in a beach in the town of Bertioga.
While police in Argentina did not name any high-ranking Nazis to whom the objects might have originally belonged, Bullrich did note there were several medical devices.
Ariel Cohen Sabban, president of the DAIA, a political umbrella for Argentina's Jewish institutes, called the find 'unheard of' in Argentina.
Cohen said: 'Finding 75 original pieces is historic and could offer irrefutable proof of the presence of top leaders who escaped from Nazi Germany.'
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Largest collection, my ass.
:mmm:
Quote from: The Brain on June 20, 2017, 02:17:59 PM
:mmm:
The HJarmonicas are mine-- don't even think about it.
Quote from: derspiess on June 20, 2017, 02:17:31 PM
Largest collection, my ass.
largest discovered. If you haven't shown yours to the world, they can't know. ;)
Good lord, the Nazis had shitty taste. :lol:
What's up with the Nazi Sphinx statue?
Quote from: Malthus on June 20, 2017, 02:45:48 PM
What's up with the Nazi Sphinx statue?
I've read they were into a lot of polytheistic stuff.
Is it against the law to own Nazi memorabilia? Why is this the subject of a police investigation and raid! This is outrageous! He's just an honest collector of antiquities! :ultra:
The Nazis were ridiculously credulous. They believed in just about every crackpot woo shit you can think of.
Quote from: Valmy on June 20, 2017, 02:56:11 PM
The Nazis were ridiculously incredulous. They believed in just about every crackpot woo shit you can think of.
"Credulous" ;)
Thanks!
Evidence control, my ass. www.ebay.ar
My pants are a dairy factory.
Quote from: Barrister on June 20, 2017, 02:55:27 PM
Is it against the law to own Nazi memorabilia?
No.
QuoteWhy is this the subject of a police investigation and raid! This is outrageous! He's just an honest collector of antiquities! :ultra:
Illegal importation of historical artifact is likely illegal in Argentina though. There might have been tax or duties skipped.
Did I tell you guys about the old clockmaking Nazi whose house I looked at buying. Dude had a closet full of memorabilia.
Quote from: Caliga on June 20, 2017, 07:38:28 PM
Did I tell you guys about the old clockmaking Nazi whose house I looked at buying. Dude had a closet full of memorabilia.
Klink and his cuckoo clocks.
Quote from: Caliga on June 20, 2017, 07:38:28 PM
Did I tell you guys about the old clockmaking Nazi whose house I looked at buying. Dude had a closet full of memorabilia.
And you threatened to turn him into he police unless he told you all about his evil past?
Ok that might be too obscure a reference.
Quote from: Caliga on June 20, 2017, 07:38:28 PM
Did I tell you guys about the old clockmaking Nazi whose house I looked at buying. Dude had a closet full of memorabilia.
I recall something like that, but we should ask Raz to confirm.
Quote from: Valmy on June 20, 2017, 07:42:47 PM
And you threatened to turn him into he police unless he told you all about his evil past?
Ok that might be too obscure a reference.
Nah, I got it. He wasn't at the house or I might have tried to speak with him about his... childhood. :)
Speaking of all this...these new Jaegermeister commercials definitely have a Riefenstahl-ian tinge. :hmm:
Caliga's no apt pupil.
Quote from: Caliga on June 20, 2017, 07:38:28 PM
Did I tell you guys about the old clockmaking Nazi whose house I looked at buying. Dude had a closet full of memorabilia.
Shitty porn videos on VHS like "GOERING GONE WILD" and "ARMY GROUP PETER NORTH" don't count.
Quote from: Valmy on June 20, 2017, 07:42:47 PM
Ok that might be too obscure a reference.
unlike the last one, I got it. Though I can't remember the name of the movie.
Quote from: Tonitrus on June 20, 2017, 07:54:12 PM
Speaking of all this...these new Jaegermeister commercials definitely have a Riefenstahl-ian tinge. :hmm:
post a vid so you can evaluate?
Quote from: viper37 on June 20, 2017, 09:35:25 PM
post a vid so you can evaluate?
https://www.ispot.tv/ad/wAC6/jagermeister-ice
Quote from: viper37 on June 20, 2017, 09:34:10 PM
Quote from: Valmy on June 20, 2017, 07:42:47 PM
Ok that might be too obscure a reference.
unlike the last one, I got it. Though I can't remember the name of the movie.
I just did not consider Amadeus an obscure film :P
But that gag was more for BB.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 20, 2017, 09:50:12 PM
Quote from: viper37 on June 20, 2017, 09:35:25 PM
post a vid so you can evaluate?
https://www.ispot.tv/ad/wAC6/jagermeister-ice
All that is missing is the word "race" at the end of their closing line. :P
Quote from: viper37 on June 20, 2017, 07:35:38 PM
Quote from: Barrister on June 20, 2017, 02:55:27 PM
Is it against the law to own Nazi memorabilia?
No.
QuoteWhy is this the subject of a police investigation and raid! This is outrageous! He's just an honest collector of antiquities! :ultra:
Illegal importation of historical artifact is likely illegal in Argentina though. There might have been tax or duties skipped.
It was imported 70 years ago by different people though, why is this guy on the hook?
Quote from: Valmy on June 20, 2017, 10:33:55 PM
Quote from: viper37 on June 20, 2017, 09:34:10 PM
Quote from: Valmy on June 20, 2017, 07:42:47 PM
Ok that might be too obscure a reference.
unlike the last one, I got it. Though I can't remember the name of the movie.
I just did not consider Amadeus an obscure film :P
who? is he a friend of Katty Perry?
:P
I just never saw the movie. Looking for it, 1984, and not something that would be displayed at appropriate hours for a kid, no cable, no pay tv, not a surprise I didn't see it.
Quote from: jimmy olsen on June 20, 2017, 11:25:33 PM
It was imported 70 years ago by different people though, why is this guy on the hook?
Probably because they want to know who imported it 70 years ago? They may be interested in a black market for such historical artifacts too.
The Nazis sure did love putting their sign on everything.
Quote from: Grey Fox on June 21, 2017, 08:01:12 AM
The Nazis sure did love putting their sign on everything.
Yeah, like using a person's last name to brand everything.
Historical artifacts? They're barely antiques.
Quote from: crazy canuck on June 21, 2017, 08:16:20 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on June 21, 2017, 08:01:12 AM
The Nazis sure did love putting their sign on everything.
Yeah, like using a person's last name to brand everything.
Well, Trump literally is Hitler. So, yeah...
Fortunately Trump is not even figuratively Mussolini. I thought it was kind of funny Trump is so incompetent all that kind of hysteria was pretty shortlived.
Quote from: derspiess on June 21, 2017, 08:23:45 AM
Quote from: crazy canuck on June 21, 2017, 08:16:20 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on June 21, 2017, 08:01:12 AM
The Nazis sure did love putting their sign on everything.
Yeah, like using a person's last name to brand everything.
Well, Trump literally is Hitler. So, yeah...
:huh:
Oh, I get it, you are stating the what some Trump supporters hope.
Quote from: Valmy on June 21, 2017, 08:25:21 AM
Fortunately Trump is not even figuratively Mussolini. I thought it was kind of funny Trump is so incompetent all that kind of hysteria was pretty shortlived.
Yep. I've said it before, but he's Berlusconi.
Quote from: Tonitrus on June 20, 2017, 10:46:37 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on June 20, 2017, 09:50:12 PM
Quote from: viper37 on June 20, 2017, 09:35:25 PM
post a vid so you can evaluate?
https://www.ispot.tv/ad/wAC6/jagermeister-ice
All that is missing is the word "race" at the end of their closing line. :P
:lol:
Exactly what I thought.