Hitler cards graded by PSA

[drcy]

They are authenticators and graders of historical artifacts for historical artifacts collectors. What do you think history is made up of, only Mister Rogers and the birth of Lassie?

I worked at a Holocaust Museum, and they owned, displayed and had authenticated Nazi items, including a couple of Hitler trading cards and a Nazi flag. Can a Holocaust Museum exist without displaying Nazi items?

I once asked the head archivist, a 70-something Jewish woman, what she felt about her carefully restoring and cleaning a Nazi flag. She said she saw the irony in it.

[Peter_Spaeth]

In a world where elementary schools named for Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson are renamed because they were too offensive, and yes this happened in San Francisco, is there any place it stops and we simply leave history alone to learn from it and not purge it?

[packs]

I see that argument made a lot but naming a school after someone is not history. It's totally fine to honor someone else after a while. It does not in any way alter the life lived for whoever's name is removed.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by packs

I see that argument made a lot but naming a school after someone is not history. It's totally fine to honor someone else after a while. It does not in any way alter the life lived for whoever's name is removed.

The reason given was that these Presidents were too offensive to have a school named after them, Jefferson because he was a slave owner, Lincoln for his participation in the Black Hawk War in the 1830s. It wasn't a question of honoring someone else after a while.

[packs]

Are those not facts about their lives? It's the name of a school. Nobody changed their biographies.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by packs

Are those not facts about their lives? It's the name of a school. Nobody changed their biographies.

I don't see your point honestly. Yes, it's obviously a highly symbolic gesture, but one I happen to believe does not speak well of our judgment or priorities.

[packs]

My point is changing the name of a school in no way changes history. It changes the name of a school.

Also, any good historian interprets history. History is not a fact on a piece of paper. Unless that's all you want it to be.