The issue is that Nazi types do collect Nazi memorabilia. I have no idea if legitimate collectors interested in the history and artifacts of the 3rd Reich don't outnumber the swastika-loving set, but my gut sense is that they probably do. If I found this ring, I'd have no problem selling it, but I'd want to know as surely as possible that my buyer is not a Nazi, but a legitimate collector of historical paraphernalia. By the way, my Dad's first cousin was a GI captured in the Bulge, and shot in the back by a Nazi prison guard - actually the sergeant in charge of the guards - in a nearby town after escaping for the 2nd time. He left his body lying in the yard for three days to discourage other escapes. The story of that particular POW camp, Berga - the only German prison camp for American POW's run by the SS, as a slave labor camp - was featured on PBS, and my Dad had never known before watching the show, how his cousin had died. Imagine finding out on TV, 60 years after the fact. The sergeant who did the shooting was actually arrested, tried and convicted by a US military court of murdering a POW, and sentenced to hang, but an American appeals officer overturned the conviction 5 years later- supposedly, the fact he could not find powder burns on the jacket meant to him that the guard had shot at my 2nd cousin while he was running away. But I think it had just become impolitic by 1951 for the Americans to hang a German. At least the SOB sat in prison for 5 years with a death sentence hanging over his head - this particular guy had stolen all the GI's Red Cross packets and sold or distributed them to Germans. These packets contained vital food supplementation, that could have made the difference between life and death for well over 100 GI POW's who died in Berga, or in the death march out of Berga, from malnutrition, physical exhaustion, and disease. He deserved to hang just for that.
