Why is the US still using a Nazi tall ship?

"Nazi" is an ideology, a political belief. A ship (or a cup, a plate, a monkey wrench, etc.) doesn't hold a political belief. It is simply a ship.

It is a very nice ship, and serves a useful purpose. Not using the ship because it was built by the Nazi's is ridiculous. We would have to get rid of a lot of stuff in our lives, including the Bush family [1].

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworld...

That's not unlike asking, why are people driving Volkswagen cars?

"Volkswagen was originally created in 1937 by the German Labour Front (Deutsche Arbeitsfront)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Labour_Front

Unfortunately not in English: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorch-Fock-Klasse

This one is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorch_Fock_%281933%29

Why did the Israeli Defense Forces use Nazi fighter planes in the late 1940s? I assume that it was because ME-109s were easier to come by. (OK, Wikipedia says it was the Czech Avia-S199 variant, but still.)

I've always loved that ship, and sailing ships in general. Son of a Coast Guard officer here.