Did your relatives who fought Nazi Germany bring mementos back from the war?

Full disclosure, I’m a Catholic gentile. I saw a post on Reddit that reminded me of something from my childhood.

One of my close friends was Jewish. Whenever I went over to his house when we were kids, I always noticed a knife set behind a glass frame in their living room. It was a Hitler Youth knife. Eventually I asked him about it. Why his family had a knife with a swastika on it when they were Jewish? Why would they want that in their home, etc..

His great-grandfather fought in France during the Second World War and took it from a German POW he had helped capture. They kept it on display in the family home not only to commemorate his service, but as a reminder that good will always triumph over evil.

In humbly ask you, with no intent to offend, if your family members who served ever brought home reminders of their service, or objects that symbolize why the war was worth fighting? How do you feel about them? Do you feel proud, ambivalent, or disgusted to have items related to Nazis in your family?