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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 35289, member: 39&quot;]Well, I live in Germany, and the name is not in any way illegal - it&#039;s just that for obvious reasons it is not exactly popular. If I had had that name after WW2, I may well have had it changed. And in fact, you won&#039;t find a single Hitler entry in the German phone directory ...</p><p><br /></p><p>As for displaying the swastika in public, it depends. Its &quot;political&quot; use is illegal in Germany, Austria and several other European countries. Publishing it for religious or scientific purposes, for example, is not. Also, it is perfectly legal to buy or sell nazi coins with swastikas.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the street where I live (in Düsseldorf, NW) there is an early 20c house that has balcony railings which are decorated with swastikas. No problem since there is no political &quot;message&quot;. But I don&#039;t think that anybody would decorate a house this way nowadays. So yes, I absolutely agree, the swastika is &quot;burned&quot; (despite any efforts of explaining that it is not a genuine nazi symbol), and finding it on post-1945 coins is practically impossible, I think.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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