Here is a picture representing a german luftwaffe officer's dagger that I used to own but had stolen while in college. My neighbor drove a tank in WWII and picked up many daggers, knives, goggles, etc. from the battlefield. He let me have two german daggers when I was younger: one was exactly like the one in this picture. The other was smaller and had an upside down eagle's talon clutching a globe with the nazi ensignia on it as its grip/handle. As someone else wrote, these were historical artifacts and I didn't own them as a nazi supporter. The two I was given were just the two most distinctive daggers in my neighbor's collection. My neighbor also had personal photographs taken from the liberation of the concentration camps. I was probably ten when he gave the daggers to me and I always felt the weight of history hanging from them when I would get them out. It's been nearly 20 years ago since the one was stolen, but it still gives me a headache to think about losing that dagger to a thief. The smaller one is stored away somewhere and I wouldn't know where to begin to look. If I come across it, I'll post it.
