Are you serious?

Too soon! Seriously!!!

Nothing EVER with Hitlers name attached to it should be sold. Should be burned!!!

I won’t belittle your passion, but this car is an inanimate object. It did not and could not harm anyone. It is an historical artifact and an amazing one. The lure I have towards it, as fantasy like as it may be, has nothing to do with anyone who ever rode in it. It’s an amazing vehicle and I’d love to own it. If I ever got the chance, it would never bear red flags, but I might paint the car red. I wouldn’t mind owning a Mitsubishi Zero or a Lockheed P38 Lightning either. I didn’t mean any disrespect and apologize if I offended you or anyone else.
Merry Christmas

Thank you for the thoughtful and respectful response. But I guess you never lost family to the gas chambers in WWII **** Germany. I have.

Yes, it’s an inanimate object, so is a countries flag, a bible, or irreplaceable family photos. But, because of what they represent, they take on a much greater meaning than just an object. Same as the car. In my mind, the only way to make this right would be to donate all the proceeds to a museum-charity-families of loved ones lost. Not to profit from it. And yes, there will be huge profit made off this sale.

Please believe me when I tell you that I do understand your feelings about the horrors of WWII and certainly share them. My father was in the Pacific Theatre. Still, the car in question, has passed through several owners since the war and each time it changed hands, I would imagine a profit was made. How do you reconcile the profits from all those sales? Also, if you read the link I posted, all the way to the end, the current seller is committing 10% of the proceeds to a Holocaust education charity, which is probably a smart marketing ploy, rather than a heart felt desire, but it’s there nonetheless. Is that a good thing, or would it still be better if the car were burned?

My father saw some of the atrocities in Japan and did not approve when I started driving Japanese cars. But the War had been over for 30 years already, and I suggested that maybe it was time we moved on, and he reluctantly agreed. If we don’t move on—and I know that many, maybe millions from our generation have not and will not—how in the world can we drive, own and praise cars built by a company that was heavily involved in producing materials for the War? The answer is because we have all moved on. We have not forgotten, but we have reconciled things and realize that we live in a different time. The car in question is nothing more than something old, from a different time, when the world was a different place, at least that’s the way I see it.