Nazi porcelain

The BBC has an article by Edmund de Waal about the secret Nazi history of porcelain:

Porcelain is associated with everyday objects, but at the heart of the white material is a dark story of obsession, power and purity. explains.
European craftsmen first worked out how to make porcelain in the eighteenth century in Dresden, Germany.
Augustus the Strong, ruler of Saxony, became obsessed with the material, claiming to be gripped by Porzellankrankheit, German for ‘porcelain sickness’. He built palaces to house his massive collections, which included whole regiments of soldiers, in order to fill the world with representations of his power.
‘Meissen porcelain, named after the town where it was produced, became associated with the Teutonic ideal, as Edmund de Wall puts it: “a pure white substance made from German earth.” But the connection between Meissen pottery and the Nazi party is rarely discussed. De Waal visited the Meissen archive to find out how Allach porcelain, prized by the rulers of the Third Reich, was created in the concentration camp at Dachau.

Rico says that Meissen would probably like to forget that connection...