Would you hang this in your house?

i stand corrected - in answer to your question though no, it may give visitors or the casual observer the wrong idea

See the OP's reply below.

Old paper is always foxed and smelly, plus it has Shitlers name on it.

I would not hang anything with the name or signature of Adolf Hitler (or any other Nazi) anywhere in my house.

If there's a photo of your relative, I'd hang that, maybe with a blurb about her bravery and sense of duty as a nurse.

As a PP suggested, I'd offer the document to the War Museum or to the Red Cross or any memorial to nurses who served their fellow humans in the wars of the 20th century.

I'm guessing this is the Deutschland incident? The following day, the Germans bombed the city of Almeria in retaliation. A taste of things to come.
Your choice, the nurse did a humanitarian act of course.

Is it mouldy and smelly?

I’d hang it. It’s about the relative not Hitler. A very interesting historical piece. My FIL was in a camp before anyone comes for me.

It’s mouldy and smelly old tat and of no use just throw it away

‘forced’ is an interesting choice of word. I tend to feel that anyone I know well enough to have in my house, that would be their response, rather than to accuse me of harbouring Nazi memorabilia/being a neo-Nazi.

In this case, the OP doesn’t have a picture of the relative or another certificate.

IMO it is not socially or emotionally intelligent to feel that people should be forced to make that reconciliation.
If they were proud of their relative to the point where they wanted to initiate discussions with the people visiting their house about her amazing bravery and undiscriminating compassion then a picture of her or a medal or nursing certificate awarded by the British Army or medical school would be a more appropriate way to do this.

On social and emotional intelligence, I’d refer back to a comment early in this thread about the nurse who this certificate brings to mind: that, in acting with undiscriminating compassion, she was doing what the Nazis couldn’t.
IMO it takes a great deal of social and emotional intelligence to reconcile the presence of Hitler’s name with the knowledge of what this nurse did and was commemorated for.

Yes, most people do not find Hitler funny or joke worthy. He is one of the most heinous individuals in history, responsible for the deaths of up to 50 million people at a high level, and that’s before you start to delve into the holocaust.

Ooops!! I’ve got a cartoon poster in the hallway with Hitler on it. Guess I’d be heavily judged by quite a few on this thread.

This is a certificate approved by one of the most evil people in history. The certificate may have been stamped prominently with his name as a bureaucratic seal of approval at a time before he had gained sufficient power to enact his genocide and acts of war but that isn't the point.
If something brings a particular person, era or period in history to mind, it's memorabilia. I stand by my assertion that I would not want to remain on friendly terms with someone who chose to display memorabilia relating to Adolf Hitler no matter what the reason. At best, it demonstrates a lack of social and emotional intelligence.

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I know, but hope springs eternal!

Good luck getting that explanation! 😏

I’d probably sell it. Someone will at some point anyway.

WW2 was complicated and messy, as war tends to be. My DHs family have recently regained their German citizenship after 80 years, it was stripped from my DHs paternal grandfather when he and his family had to flee. His job gave him travel exemptions many didn’t enjoy under the nazi regime, and he used this to secretly courier information for the German resistance, at great personal risk. Because of all this DH likes to collect German ephemera from the period such as maps, cigarette cards and things like that, not because he has any sympathies to the regime at that time, but because it gives him a small insight into life for his grandfather before it all went to shit for him and his family. Your medal and certificate are very similar, a snapshot of a particular time and your relative’s involvement. It’s not something to be ashamed of. Maybe don’t hang it in the hallway, but certainly don’t get rid of it.

@ShutupLwrenyou sound like a wonderful person! Thank you for your post, what you say about compassion is so true.

LOL, no, I’m an English monoglot.
I mean that the name (not signature; the signature is someone else’s) is there to show that Hitler was the leader of the organisation in question at the time.
That seems to me to be an administrative thing, but maybe I should have said ‘bureaucratic’?

I am also interested to hear what qualifies a nursing certificate as Nazi memorabilia.

I have made my views very clear and you obviously understand them so I'm not sure what you think your repeated attempts to try to force me to change my position by accusing me of being offensive and having the wrong opinion because it's not the same as yours is achieving. If you find my revulsion at displaying endorsed by Adolf Hitler offensive rather than what he and his party represent then that's for you and your conscience to sit with and I think this interaction should end here.

I’d sell it I think.

Oh no, I totally agree collecting Nazi memorabilia just for display in a private home is highly questionable and offensive.

I just I don't think the document in question is in anyway an example of such a thing. It's an acknowledgement of the actions of a nurse carrying out her duty.

I appreciate you are offended by the fact it is printed with Hitler's name, but I haven't seen any explanation as to how that qualifies it as Nazi memorabilia.

What I find offensive, is that you brand people as collectors of Nazi memorabilia, accuse people of glorifying the Nazis, because unlike you they see worth in a historic document that marks the compassionate actions of a nurse.

I fully accept that just the name Hitler makes some people uncomfortable, but what is to be gained by trying to eradicate him from history?

As uncomfortable as it may be, we should all remember the darkest points in history. If for nothing else but as an attempt to prevent the same horrors happening again.