This is my first time on the site and I have to say that I expected the posts would be more on point and less “snarky.” I’m interested in learning the history and facts of our ancestry. Just saying.
I still have the small booklet that was packed inside the case which has the Weirmach eagle with swastika on it. Came out a bit older but lots & lots smarter-wiser. Things get tough Harris. If our nation is filled with ignorance then we can be conquered rather easily by the enemy. I’m outa heah!!! A General’s dream to take control and govern as to his liking. However, they weren’t the only guilty ones, there were many soldiers who brought home certain trophies of war that were the personal property of people from across Europe. No other Leaders can say.or do much,. You may not like what happened or the Court Martial results, but those individuals were adjudicated by a court under duly established sets of regulations at the time. I guess they really are just figment of our imagination.I’d agree the connection to this story is pretty thin, but where do you get the knowledge that he is bigoted? Makes me think of the movie THE DIRTY DOZEN. Yes, as been pointed out by someone else, the Russians did it. The post and our replies should be deleted.In my estimation there has been someone other than Adam Roach on here taking up FAR more space and contributing absolutely nothing useful or constructive, yet I don’t feel it is my place to be calling for the removal of his contributions. To trivialize a leatherman’s toolcase and a Japanese rifle, rationalizing that’s it’s okay because some pencil-headed geek lieutenant gave his blessing and rubber-stamped some paperwork, the original owner’s of said items might still want their property back, or the families of the original owners.I’m not going to speak for taking a workman’s tools… I don’t know the circumstances about that. Hope this helps!The details are in Kenneth Alford’s book The Spoils of World War 2.Fascinating, yes. Hmvr, I disagree with thou. Sadly he died, and never saw his daughter wear the tiara. 1896 image of the crown (at bottom) The court jeweller Ekart and Jérémie Pauzié made the Great Imperial Crown for the coronation of Catherine the Great in 1762. I’m sure there are entire books (hundreds of them?) The question is how come our security, drug epidimic and overall crime is more prevalent in comparison to other Nations where the “Elite’s” don’t even have that many layers of Judicial branches and are able to maintained law and order.
Only the winners get to write history.
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Nash sent items to her sister in Wisconsin including a Look at what they did!I agree the booty was extremely valuable and intricately-designed jewels, but I don’t see the difference, ethically speaking, between stealing those jewels and finding a pirate’s treasure or stealing a starving family’s chickens in the South during the (un) Civil War. Shortly before they were captured and charged, Nash and Durant had gotten married. She was a Romanov cousin. They were at that point tasked with preserving order and stabilizing society. He sent/gave my gran some of the jewels. Bkfst, Agin, Sumpthen etc. Not the war. Commissioned officers take an oath/hold levels of responsibility well beyond those encountered by most others – especially those in civilian life – and the violation of their oath and/or responsibility typically has serious repercussions. "The crown jewels play an important part in the coronation story," Regina says, "because the czar crowns himself in the coronation, and that is the moment when he takes full power." Not too many examples of that from the Eastern Front, I don’t believe.I think it’s all rubbish regarding the ethics and morality of “taking” during wartime. Nov 9, 2017 - The Hesse crown jewelry heist in which the German Crown Jewels were stolen by American soldiers, occurred during the Second World War when priceless gems were taken