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Message:: [QUOTE="JoshuaP, post: 24663459, member: 114157"]I am a firm believer that we need to keep history alive and in our memories, lest we forget the evil that has happened in the past and repeat it. "Cancelling" or ignoring history is the worst thing to do. I have several coins from the Third Reich, and dozens of books on WW2. This is still fairly recent history, and we cannot forget the horrendous things that were done in the name of "science." Coins and memorabilia make history come alive for me. I do not collect Nazi memorabilia because of any fascination, but rather have these coins as a concrete reminder. I say this being under thirty years old. I love talking to old soldiers and hearing the stories straight from their lips. I have been to Dachau three times and lived in Stuttgart before my dad retired in 2010. Panzer Barracks had an old building with the Nazi eagle still above the entry (swastika removed). Walking in that building and thinking about who had been there in the past was sobering. At Robinson Barracks, you could still see parts of the old Nazi base in the area. Pass the stories on! With abortion, euthanization, eugenics, and far/extreme anything-ism, we could very well be headed back to 1933.......[/QUOTE]