I am looking for information about my father in law’s apparent Nazi glass. His father gave him a box of stuff from the 50’s that he had stowed away after the war, and he had apparently forgotten about having a clear heavy crystal drinking glass with a swastika and eagle on the front of it etched into the glass.
His first attempt at getting on the internet was devoted to checking out this glass and trying to find out some information about it. This involved “Going to the Google and searching for ‘Nazi stuff’,” which turned up lots of Nazi type pages that scared him.
Father in law: “Thats the last time I am getting on that damned computer box!”
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My father in law punted this off to me. I poked around on the internet using every search string I could think of to try to get some information about it, but I didn’t have really any luck except for finding out that Hitler tried to hide the fact that he needed reading glasses.
Does anyone know anything about stuff like this? He isn’t really interesting in making this a family heirloom, but we don’t know about how to get rid of it or exactly what it is other than some sort of plundered token of atrocities past.
I have pictures of it if it will help I just didn’t want to post them on here right away in case people didn’t want that posted here (which I could understand)
Thanks,
I am not sure of the Ricky Fitts that you are referring to, but my name is Danny. I used to be pretty active on here, but this is the first time I have been able to afford good internet for a while and I no longer work at the college where I had a computer.
I used to give financial aid advice on here a few years ago, when I was a financial aid advisor.
Lazlo thats about the best I could do too, finding some things that were for sale. I didn’t see one that looked like this one though. As soon as I can figure out how to get the pics off my cell I will post it. I would normally assume that it would be a fake but since it came out of the WW2 box… who knows?
Apparently you need to shell out $25 to view any of the ads on this site.
A few years back, an uncle who had served in Europe during WWII left me several Nazi daggers and assorted memorabilia, and I have always wondered what some of the items were worth, but have never known how to find out.
Two of the knives have the exact eagle-swastika emblem engraved that Translucent Daydream has on his glassware.
The logo is actually kind of compelling, to see in person, although it’s also kind of creepy, at the same time.
It’s pretty close to this from this link, just a different shaped glass. No info about them except a set of 6 went on auction and most everything else in that auction was listed for between 20 and 60 British pounds.
I find them really interesting in a “this commemorates all that was left after the world stood up and kicked the third reich’s butt” kind of way.
On one hand, there are a lot of people who would find it offensive to profit off the suffering of billions of Jews. On the other hand, it’s still a historical artifact.
Maybe you could donate it to a Holocaust museum? Would they be interested in things like this? Or would that still be deemed offensive?
You may want to do some offline research here. Try calling museums with relevant collections–it is surprisingly easy to get experts on the line, though I suppose the Nazi aspect may have made experts in this area wary. there’s also auction houses–at least one of them must handle this material, call a few and if they don’t sell it they will know who does.
The initials D R lead me to believe that these are probably Deutsche Reichsbahn dining car glasses from the Nazi era. The Reichsbahn did use the eagle-and-swastika logo from 1937 to 1945.
