# How was Europe disarmed after WWII? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 12, 2009, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-europe-disarmed-after-wwii/492829 "2009-04-12T10:38:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-europe-disarmed-after-wwii/492829/41 "2009-04-17T15:06:06Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > Thanks to the neo-nazis, it can be…tricky… to display WWII souveniers. Something like your daggers probably wouldn’t be an issue even if they have swastikas on them. But one certainly couldn’t put a captured nazi flag up on display. But I don’t know if it’s different over there in Britain. They aren’t on display, just stuck in a box in the junkroom. I fished them out and they have the following on the blade. Meine Ehre Heist\* Treue \*At least that’s what I think this word is, it’s all in Gothic Black lettering. There’s a couple of scabbards with them but they are decidedly battered and worn ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2009, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-europe-disarmed-after-wwii/492829/42 "2009-04-17T15:25:32Z")
> [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > [Here’s](http://cgsc.leavenworth.army.mil/carl/download/csipubs/gott_mobility.pdf) a military paper related to the topic. It’s about the law-enforcement role of the US military in post war Germany I just read the linked document, and I just have to ask (rhetorically), "Did _anyone_ read this before the Iraqi invasion? Apparently not. Sheesh. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-was-europe-disarmed-after-wwii/492829.md?page=2)