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WWII Wehrmacht German Panzer Officer Hat Totenkopf

Edward

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Nice hat. Neatly done on nixing the Swastikas out of the picture too (eBay can often seem petty on that score, but knowing the legal background with what Yahoo went through it's hardly surprising).
 

Edward

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Oh, back about a decade ago they had an auction site (designed to compete with eBay, but it never really succeeded). The Californian based .com site had someone on it selling Nazi and Neonazi bits and pieces, in particular material which contravened France's strict Holocaust denial laws. This being the internet, the auction was available in France, thus breaching French laws on advertising this material for sale. A French court ordered that the website must be reorganised to prevent French citizens from having access to it; a Californian court insisted Yahoo had to do no such thing as it was entitled to First Amendment protection. Two conflicting Court of Appeal judgements were also issued in the US (the second one clearly a result of political manoueverings relating to the first, which had recognised that the French had jurisdiction on this insofar as the activities carried out by Yahoo affected French citizens). In the end, Yahoo solved the stalemate by simply altering its policies, with eBay and others going down a similar line. Can be difficult to sell anything with a Swastika on it now on eBay, and I suspect they might even get funny about selling, say, a copy of Mein Kampf, an unpleasant book, certainly, but a historically important one. Basically a commercial decision: these companies decided they'd rather risk losing the business of a small number of Neonazis than appear to be the company that stood up for the rights of Neonazis... and who can blame them. (They are, of course, as private entities wholly entitled to such restriction upon what may be placed on their websites without violating the First Amendment). That's the crux of it, at least. A paradigm case study in what can happen when conflicting national laws each seek to apply to the borderless internet.
 

StetsonHomburg

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fl&wvmike

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StetsonHomberg ................
You say this hat is "OLD". Just how old ? It doesn't look to be original WWII to me. Any replicas should be advertised as replicas. It takes a little experience to tell them apart.
Fl&WvMike
 

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