An electrician was left horrified after uncovering a room filled with Nazi memorabilia in a Glasgow customer's home.
The bedroom was swamped with flags and banners emblazoned with swastikas, uniforms, boots and helmets and other insignia from the Third Reich. There was even a replica ammunition pouch and stick grenade among the sickening stash.
George Taylor, from Greenock, told of his grim find while he was performing electrical safety checks in a flat block. The tenant had left the house during the visit.
The 28-year-old first came across a poster of Adolf Hitler in the hall cupboard while examining the fuse box.
But his blood ran cold when he entered one of the bedrooms to find what he described as a "Nazi shrine".
He told Glasgow Live: "I was so shocked. You see a lot of different sights in my work but this topped them all.
"When I saw the Hitler poster at first, I didn't really think anything else. People collect different things and you learn to expect the unexpected in this job. But when I went into the bedroom, it was like walking into Berlin in 1945.
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"I was in the flat for probably an hour. A job like that can take a bit longer but I wasn’t hanging about."
There is no legislation against the trade of Nazi memorabilia in the UK and Ireland, though it is strictly prohibited in parts of Europe, including in Germany and Austria.
The chilling photos sparked a flurry of responses from stunned locals on Twitter.
George said: "I didn't post anything that would identify them. You can't not take pictures of something like that.
"I didn't expect it to blow up the way it did. People were asking if I was on the wind up but how can you recreate that?
"It's literally a shrine. There was a vast amount of material dedicated to it.
"If it was a collection from the overall war period, fair enough, but it looked extreme. There didn't seem to be anything from the allied side anyway.
"It's really scary that there are people like that live among refugees and the elderly, and other communities the Nazis would have hated."
He added: "It was a big shock to find, but in a way it doesn't surprise me. There does seem to be a rise in the popularity of the far right as the years have gone on and it's getting worse."
