That is a lovely little piece of history you have there.
I have a friend who has a child's food bowl from the Nazi era. When the child ate their food there was a picture of a teddy bear imprinted on the bottom. I guess as an incentive to eat. Underneath the base there is a logo with manufacturer information and Nazi markings.
He calls it "Hitler's breakfast bowl."
My son-in-law's grandfather was a Heer soldier during WW2. He passed years ago but his widow is still alive. She once offered me his "soldat buch" if I am spelling it correctly, basically his record book. As keen as I was to have it I told her that it more properly belongs to one of her adult children who have a more direct connection to Opa. It seemed the decent thing to do. She also offered me a soldier's dictionary book which was distributed to the soldiers, and I suppose also to the Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine, before or around the time of Barbarossa perhaps, containing German words and phrases and their Russian versions. Again, for the same reason I declined.
But if I ever get the offer again I suspect my resolve shall weaken.
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