holocaust knife companies

[seventrees]

does anyone know if puma and wusthof knife companies used slave labor from concentration camps and/or were supporters of the third reich? thanks

 

[Esav Benyamin]

I don't know.

But the country isn't nazi now, and I hope there's a point that they get to go on with their lives.

Living under perpetual threat of "gotcha!" would make ME real irritable.

 

[not2sharp]

Don't go there! I doubt any of the decision makers from 60 years ago are still around today.

If you want to take this up lets continue the discussion in the political forum.

 

[Full Tang Clan]

I agree. Let's not start the same thing that happened at the "KKK knives" forum.

I'm already tired of exchanging verbal punches with people.

This is what happens: one person gets emotional and expresses their political views, then I step in with a rebuttal, then all hell breaks loose!...

Let's just talk about knives.

 

[Esav Benyamin]

"Let's just talk about knives."

Amen.

I don't know Wusthof, and the only Puma I own is a small clip point folder. But Puma is the first knife I remember seeing that really impressed me with its precise fit and finish -- and toughness. A friend of mine had one of those big hunter models with the big belly, and he slammed the point through a half-dollar. Didn't even scratch the blade. I hadn't known knives could do things like that, and I haven't tried to put any others through it, either!

 

[Kodiak PA]

To turn this into an educ-knife discussion it is interesting to note that there is a lot of interest in Nazi knives. Look at Ebay. Did you know that the Nazi's produced thousands of fixed blade knives during the war but NO pocket knives. If you ever have an opportunity to get one....don't. They were probably made in the good ole USA. Also, Nazi daggers such as the officer's Heer dagger were produced in Germany after the war and the feeling is that there are as many counterfeits circulating as real knives.

Collector's beware.

Trying to keeep it civil.

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~Greg Mete~
Kodiak Alaska
JKM-Chai