# Nazi?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi/9052>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 23, 2000, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi/9052 "2000-03-23T04:50:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![SI17ER](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SI17ER](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SI17ER)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2000, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi/9052/1 "2000-03-23T04:50:00Z")

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where did all the nazi shit go after  
WWII?

i mean i never seen in a book or heard about where it all went.

is there tons of nazi stuff in some ones celler in germany?

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**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2000, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi/9052/2 "2000-03-23T04:57:00Z")

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Much of it was returned to its original owners or else to the next of kin. Other bits of it were destroyed, looted by Allied forces, looted by townspeople, hidden and forever lost, or else incorrectly claimed. Even today, there’s the occassional story about a museum painting rightfully belonging to to some Jewish or Polish family pre-WWII.

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2000, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi/9052/3 "2000-03-23T05:19:00Z")

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Most Nazi shit went to the same place as Allied and Neutral Shit: the toilet 😃

Sorry.

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2000, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi/9052/4 "2000-03-23T05:36:00Z")

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Assuming you’re talking about Nazi memorabilia, there’s tons of it still around and an active market for its sale around the world (with the notable exception of Germany where it’s illegal to sell Nazi memorabilia).

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2000, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nazi/9052/5 "2000-03-23T08:12:00Z")

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It’s apparently all for sale on [eBay](http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&SortProperty=MetaEndSort&ht=1&query=nazi)

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