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My book on recent, and not so recent, fake German political and military relics is  completed. It runs to about 200 pages and lists, among other subjects, fake daggers and swords, fake personality items, fake Hitler artwork and personal relics, fake flags and standards, fake military and political decorations, fake uniforms, fake insignia, fake helmets, fake belt buckles, fake tapestries, fake personality dinnerware, fake documents, fake artwork, fake rings, fake porcelain,  and on and on. Rather than attack the merchandisers…

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Stolen Gold and Coming Revolution July 10, 2017 by Christian Jürs In late April 1945, a convoy of German trucks left the German-occupied Italian city of Muggia [in Istria] on the Adriatic Sea and drove north through Udine and then northeast to Villach in what was once the Greater German Reich and is now Austria. There were five trucks, all painted the medium camouflage yellow of the later war German Wehrmacht, and one staff car bearing license plates of the…

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By Christian Jürs For the past several months, I, with the friendly assistance of others, have been putting together a fully-ilustrated catalog of fake items of German militaria that are today being produced to be passed off to unsuspecting collectors as genuine. I will send out a notice when this is complete and would like to state that this catalog of fakes is absolutely free to anyone wishing it. But this means we hope to educate the collecting public to…

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Stolen Gold by Christian Jürs In late April 1945, a convoy of German trucks left the German-occupied Italian city of Muggia [in Istria] on the Adriatic Sea and drove north through Udine and then northeast to Villach in what was once the Greater German Reich and is now Austria. There were five trucks, all painted the medium camouflage yellow of the later war German Wehrmacht, and one staff car bearing license plates of the SS. This car was occupied by…

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by Christian Jürs The proliferation of documents from the Third Reich purporting to be signed by Adolf Hitler are legion. An original Hitler signature is quite rare and in demand by autograph and militaria collectors but, sadly, most of the ones found today on the market are not original. Firstly, one must consider the paper on which the document is signed. Paper used during the course of the Third Reich did not have paper whiteners used in its construction. This…

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This is the first in a listing of German militaria dealers, and collectors, whose activities should be of interest to the collecting world. We are sending these out, individually once a week to those who have requested them. Because of potential legal problems, we have stopped selling the book, Blacklist, , to the public. Interested parties wishing to address the writer may do so at:  GermarRudolf9@hotmail.com Kai Winkler History Shop/ House of History Schulstraße 11a D-21220 Seevetal (Maschen) Tel.: +49…

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Here is an email that apparently is being sent to many collectors, dealers and other interested parties. When it comes in, we will be certain to post it: ‘By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.’ According a recent report, ‘A Dark and Constant Rage,’ from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), right wing extremists have been responsible for planning at least 150 acts of terror in the United States over the past 25 years. They’ve killed 255 people…

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Here is a current official German exposition of a projected enforcement of current German laws concerning the sale and possession of Nazi-era items.   Vertrieb: Bundesanzeiger Verlag GmbH, Postfach 10 05 34, 50445 Köln Telefon (02 21) 97 66 83 40, Fax (02 21) 97 66 83 44, www.betrifft-gesetze.de ISSN 0720-2946 Bundesrat Drucksache 216/17 09.03.17 R – In Gesetzesantrag des Saarlandes Entwurf eines … Gesetzes zur Änderung des Strafgesetzbuches – Erweiterung des § 86a StGB in Bezug auf den Handel…

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SS-Totenkopf cuff title First instituted in September of 1938, this example is one worn on a Waffen-SS officer’s field tunic but is the same one that was issued to all ranks to replace the ‘Oberbayern” title. Ref: SS-Befehlsblatt Nr. 3, Ziff. 19, And RF-SS T-176 155/2684669 This title was hand-embroidered in aluminum thread. Wartime issues included machine-woven examples. SS-Totenkopf cuff title, hand-embroidered  

A Study in Mendacity by Wilbur Stump A Yugoslav-born immigrant from Germany, the Michigan-based Dietrich Maerz is an American success story. Hardly able to read and write in any language when he arrived in the United States, the former autoshop worker is now a successful author and publisher in the field of militaria. As well as his own books, Maerz publishes the work of other new experts through B&D Publications LLC. He also has a sideline in militaria authentication, administered…

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