I have a couple of blades from WWII that my great uncles brough back when they returned from serving. One is obvisouly Japanese and one is from Germany. I've had these since I was a kid and don't know much about them. The handle is missing from the Japanese sword and I think I recall my great uncle telling me that when he picked it up the handle had been burned off of it. I don't know if the sheath is original or not. It has what I assume is Japanese writing engraved into the metal under where the handle would have been. I don't know anything about the German knife other than that my other great uncle brought it home from Germany or I guess somewhere in the Europen Theater. I've seen pics of Hitler Youth Knives and it kinda looks similiar to me but it doesn't have any of the markings that I've seen in those pics. The only marking on the blade says SOLINSEN or something like that on the bottom of one side of the blade. Not sure if that is exactly what it says though, it's a little hard to read. Any one got any info on these knives. I've always wondered if they were worth anything.
