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Message:: [QUOTE="chrisild, post: 1154583, member: 39"]Those medals originate from and were initially sold in Italy. Along with similar pieces featuring, Marx, Mussolini, Lenin, etc. Such pieces usually fetch prices of one euro or two only, but US collectors tend to pay more for the Hitler piece. What that dealer writes about the medal is bogus: "The German Government of course, was not amused. They have done everything in their power to help people to forget that Hitler once held the job of Helmut Kohl and Gerhard Schröder. The coins were driven from the market shortly after they began to sell and we suspect that few survive." Maybe he had to write such nonsense in order to promote the sale of his medal. But because people - well, at least over here - know pretty well what position Hitler had and what his regime did, such crude comparisons won't work. Kohl and Schröder had the office of Bundeskanzler (head of government) of the Federal Republic - Hitler was Führer (head of state) and Reichskanzler of the German (Third) Reich. Insinuating a continuity here is pretty shabby in my opinion. The reason why such pieces cannot be marketed here is a different one: Medals like that one, produced quite a while after 1945, are considered nazi propaganda. (That does not apply to coins and militaria etc. from the nazi years.) But if US customers find such medals interesting, there is nothing that keeps them from producing, selling, buying, collecting them. Christian[/QUOTE]