>Plus
>they loan out pieces to other museums, such as the replica Me 262
>that's presently on loan to a museum in Germany.

Well, that's ironic, in the non-classical sense.

It reminds me of a thing: I have a couple of books about U-505, the Type IXC U-boat they have at (of all places) the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, and one of the things that comes up in both is that when the museum was restoring the submarine in the 1950s, they wrote to the German companies that had made various bits and pieces of it that had gone missing or been destroyed over the years since its capture, asking whether they might still have or know where the museum could get spares. They all sent what bits they had along without charging for them, usually with a note saying something to the effect of "we hate that you're showing off our submarine like some kind of fishing trophy, but we at least want it to be as impressive as possible." Which is sort of peak German. :)

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