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Today I had a very unsettling experience while looking through some 78s - there in the middle of a bunch of innocuous garbage appeared an old-school six pocket sleeve 78 album that on the spine indicated "Organ Favorites" on Columbia, and on the back was a generic Columbia catalog ad, but the front cover...just a regular brown board, but printed with a small, faceless brown-inked line drawing of a head, hairline, and mustache that was unmistakeably Hitler. On the inside front was a taped, a ptinted image and a word in German, not big at all. And then inside, one "regular" 78, but two more of speeches. I found an example of the label here: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/.a/6a00d8341c464853ef0177444b366e970d-pi And another mention of the records themselves here: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/music/2012/08/martin-moir-donation.html The really creepy thing, however, was that this album showed no signs of being a homemade paste job, it was too perfectly assembled for anything like that. It had obviously been constructed as a "secret container" or some such. A place for somebody to keep the records on their shelve or to carry them about without calling any attention to itself except by pulling it out and showing it. The thing was mixed in with a lot of other 78 albums and was priced at $3.00, and I really don't think that anybody involved in putting it on sale in the store bothered to look at the details, they likely just saw another 78 album, slapped a price sticker on it, and threw it in with all the others. I didn't buy it, didn't want to buy it, didn't even want to snap pictures of it. Shit like this gives me the creeps from the mojo, and I don't want it in or near my house/family. Call me superstitious, you're probably right, but still... I'm left with the question - is something like this a "known quantity" historically? Was it a post-war thing, some underground Nazi-exile way to keep the memory alive in your new country or something like that. In other words, is there any real, objective historical value to it, dark as it is? I'm fully aware of the sensitivity of an item like this, and like I said, I did not buy it, It was just creepy as hell. But there it was, and I'm left wondering just how many of these things were there in the first place, how many survive, and, really, WTF? in so, so many ways.