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Daggers and swastikas found among possibly the U.K’s biggest Hoard of hidden militaria.    Welcome to WW2Buyer.com David Mattey of WW2Buyer.com  is a conscientious dealer with over 40 years experience in the purchase and sale of Medals ,Decorations , Arms and...

Graf Spee, Nazi War trophies come in all shapes and sizes .Few could claim to be as impressive as the Giant bronze stern ornament recovered from the scuttled (December 1939) ” Graf Spee”. The “Pocket”battleship which had famously sunk numerous British merchant vessels before meeting it’s fate Weighing in at 33 kilos with a wings spanning of nearly 9 3 meters, the statue is perhaps a unique surviving example . A businessman Alfredo Etchegaray had the statue from the wreck of the Graf Spee recovered in shallow waters just off Uruguay’s capital of Montevideo in 2006. The eagle is a reminder of the region’s unwanted links with the Third Reich. Etechegaray has shelled out $5 million over three decades in retrieving parts of the Graf Spee, and now wants a return on that investment. Uruguay’ courts have ruled that the businessman ownes 50% of the statue, with the other half belonging to the government. He wants to sell his rights and have the statue, currently under wraps in a Uruguayan navy warehouse, put on display in a museum. But he claims Germany is pressuring the administration of President Jose Mujica to keep the controversial sculpture out of public sight. “If the government wants to bury this statue they have the right to do that, but we also have the right to get half the money for it,” Etchegaray said. “Why shouldn’t it be displayed publicly, in an appropriate way, of course, with historical explanation? That’s what happens with the Roman Colosseum, with artifacts from the Khmer Rouge, with torture instruments used by the Inquisition.” Acting on Etchegaray’s behalf, Montevideo art gallery Gomensoro is now receiving offers for the businessman’s 50 percent stake in the statue, which it values loosely at up to $15 million. The reserve price, gallery owner Jose Enrique Gomensoro claims, is between $3 million and $5 million. “It’s 100 percent certain it will sell,” Gomensoro adds. “But it’s very hard to say how much it will fetch. It could all depend on the whim of a single collector. How badly do they want it?” That the statue is unique is beyond dispute. The only similar one used by the “Kriegsmarine,” Hitler’s navy, was on the prow of the Bismarck, a much larger warship sunk in the North Atlantic in 1941. Classed as a “pocket battleship,” the Graf Spee was named after a German admiral and, for its era, used state-of-the-art technology. Just over 600 feet long, it had a top speed of 29 knots (about 33 miles per hour) and its main weapons were six 52-caliber guns mounted in two turrets, fore and aft. It sank nine Allied merchant ships in the South Atlantic, as they brought vital supplies of beef, wheat and wool, from South America to the United Kingdom, in the early days of World War II. But it was scuttled in December 1939 just off Montevideo after being damaged in the ferocious Battle of the River Plate and its captain, Hans Langsdorff, had been tricked by British intelligence into believing that it was about to be surrounded by the Royal Navy. Residents of Montevideo watched the ship burn for three days before eventually sinking in water just 30 feet deep. Langsdorff shot himself in a Buenos Aires hotel three days later. Uruguay eventually joined the conflict on the side of the Allies. Although after the war it also, unwittingly perhaps, provided refuge to a small number of war criminals, including one torturer known as Dr. Death. But Gomensoro’s valuation for the eagle-and-swastika statue was trashed by William Rey Ashfield, a former head of the National Heritage Commission, who described the multimillion-dollar price tag as “delirious.” “Really, the Uruguayan government should never have allowed any salvaging of the Graf Spee,” Rey Ashfield said. “But now that this statue is on dry land, I hope that an agreement can be worked out for it to be put on public display, but not in a triumphalist way, here in Uruguay. This is part of our history too.” He was also skeptical of Etchegaray’s claim that Germany was opposed to the statue being displayed publicly. “Germany is on the sidelines. If anything, the problem is that they don’t want to get involved, although they would definitely be concerned at the possibility of a private sale leading to the statue falling into the hands of neo-Nazis or being used to glorify the Third Reich.” “It could be a good attraction for a museum. But it is a controversial piece that many people will also reject. It is a hot potato.” Meanwhile, Etchegaray is waiting for the Uruguayan government to make up its mind about what it wants to do with its 50 percent stake in the statue. “I’m not waiting 20 years,” he said. “Deciding who owns it has already taken long enough.

  Nazi Statue   Nazi War trophies come in all shapes and sizes . Few could claim to be as impressive as the Giant bronze stern ornament recovered from the  scuttled (December 1939) ” Graf Spee”. The “Pocket”battleship which had famously sunk...

Nazi Memorabilia dealers . We at WW2 Buyer .com specialize in the buying of NAZI Badges and all other WW2 German memorabilia.Such Items have been banned from the major internet auction site EBAY.You may be comforted to know that we at WW2 Buyer.com buy exclusively for a vetted circle of responsible academic collectors, museums and historians. WW2 Buyer.com never condones or promotes the Nazis or any other hate groups! We believe that the preservation of objects (evidence) from this dark era only has validity within an educational context. WW2 Buyer.com buy directly from you, therefore you avoid letting auctioneers take a slice of the pie. WW2 Buyer.com considers that the open display of Nazi symbols outside of a balanced historical collection to be both irresponsible and offensive. Our Payment Policy is straightforward: You receive immediate advanced payment for your items in full. We pay any duty on goods arriving from outside the Country and pay all postal costs. This chart shows the range of prices being paid In advance via the”Paypal” service or similar By German Dagger Buyers.com.

The New Found Importance of Germany Educating About The Taboo Area National Socialism. National socialism  museum set to open on site of Hitler’s former party headquarters in Munich A centre documenting the history of Germany’s National Socialism movement is  to open...

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