Nazi memorabilium
The wife's aunt found an interesting doodad in her house:
The AGW Hive Mind (grumpy old men who used to beat each other to virtual hell in a flight sim and now do so over eveything else) helped me find out what it is.
I was able to decipher the German myself. A Landrat is the district administrator, sort of the mayor of a county, and des Kreisses Euskirchen means the district of Euskirchen, which is on the border with Belgium. The hive mind helped me find out what this was, however.
It's a licence plate tag, which would allow the Landrat to park anywhere, sort of like a New York City doctor. The Hive Mind found two other examples out there.
I'm still left with a few puzzles. How was it attached to the licence plate? Who took it from the Landrat's car? What was it doing in the house my wife's grandfather built - he didn't serve in the war and he certainly didn't hoard Nazi goodies out of pride.
The AGW Hive Mind (grumpy old men who used to beat each other to virtual hell in a flight sim and now do so over eveything else) helped me find out what it is.
I was able to decipher the German myself. A Landrat is the district administrator, sort of the mayor of a county, and des Kreisses Euskirchen means the district of Euskirchen, which is on the border with Belgium. The hive mind helped me find out what this was, however.
It's a licence plate tag, which would allow the Landrat to park anywhere, sort of like a New York City doctor. The Hive Mind found two other examples out there.
I'm still left with a few puzzles. How was it attached to the licence plate? Who took it from the Landrat's car? What was it doing in the house my wife's grandfather built - he didn't serve in the war and he certainly didn't hoard Nazi goodies out of pride.
posted by Webs at
6:53 PM
1 Comments:
Interesting... and not at all what I expected when I saw the title of your post.
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