Either the museum is playing fast and loose with its marketing of having the true cross or the OP is doing so(I suspect the latter though I could be wrong). No matter if you believe such an artifact to be true, many such artifacts were claimed to be of the true cross. This has been going on since at least medieval times. These “artifacts” in themselves are of interest, no matter if they are from the true cross or not.
Thank you. I should have read this before posting.
No. That was a nickname he picked up because he always used a Pilot pen.
Goint back to the OP, most of the Hitler stuff is at least credible - the US troopers who raided the Eagle’s Nest notoriously descended upon it like a flight of magpies, not really looking for loot per se but souvenirs and “I was there” tokens were in very high demand. So I can totally see some G.I. bringing home “Hitler’s comb” or whatever (with the caveat that they probably also just brought back whatever happened to be lying around in there and dubbed it “Hitler’s”).
The “upholstery with suicide blood” item is a lot more questionable - AFAIK nobody but the Soviets got access to the bunker in the first place, they destroyed it very soon after the war (and vanished Hitler’s body), and in any event Hitler wasn’t the only guy who topped himself in there - how would they know the blood was specifically his ?
I suppose it’s possible a Soviet trooper picked that up, then the bit of upholstery somehow found itself in a US museum sixty years later… but colour me very dubious.
Wow, you learn something new everyday. I thought it was the Latin spelling. :smack:
If by “secular” you mean “mostly Western Christian sources being cited by other Christians”. Later you say the Wikipedia article is nice but too short, but by that I am sure you just meant “it agrees with me so I like it.” There’s a major amount of systemic bias displayed by the editors of that page (and most of their articles about Christianity) which they don’t even try to hide.
There’s another thread for it though where that all should be discussed, but since you brought it up here a short response here would be appropriate.
“It was in Europe at the end of the war, Germany had conquered most of the countries, Hitler was ultimately in charge, so, yes, it was Hitler’s pin cushion.”
…“So he said, ‘When you rub it, it turns into a suitcase!’”
Set-up supplied on request.
and of course there are those that believe they have Adam and Eve’s original sin