These recognition models was manufactured to train aircraft to spot German bombers in the air. This is a 1:172 scale model of a German Focke-Wulf Fw 200K. It belonged to the contributor's grandfather who served in the RAF in England.
Recognition Model of WWII German Bomber
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Exact memory against the contempt of human beings
27th of January: International day in memory of Auschwitz
I.
The Jewish author Elie Wiesel, who escaped the torture of Auschwitz as a young man, said: "Only the exact memory stops the insanity."
The memory of the victims has to be exact when we look at the historic events in Germany between the 30th of January 1933 and the 8th of May 1945. During that time, human dignity has been taken away little by little leading to a contempt of human beings.
Does this affect us now?
II.
The memory has to be even more exact if it is addressed against us on the Auschwitz day of commemoration. Exact memory and analysis of our time from the perspective of the victims of the Nazi dictatorship and the victims of tyranny today are closely connected to each other.
Our mourning should therefore not just be a calming event of political correctness, but includes also an obligation to prevent violation of the human dignity now and in the future.
III.
However, not all Germans have been collaborators of the Nazis. There were also Germans that stood against the Nazi violence and gave their lives.
Sophie Scholl, a young woman of the White Rose resistance movement in Munich that has been condemned to death by the Nazis said:
"Someone must be the first that begins to resist."
This statement also includes an accusation to all Germans that deliberately backed the Nazi dictatorship. It is not easy for the generation of old Germans in this context to look at their own cowardice between 1933 and 1945. Especially at the beginning of WWII, many Germans backed the war. They went for the empty and false promises of the Nazis entirely built on irrational and unjustified prejudice.
We today are therefore so sorry for all those that unnessarily lost their lives in the context of WWII or still suffer from painful wounds in their biographies.