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Message:: [QUOTE="Evan8, post: 26202271, member: 74343"]I hope you don't drive a Volkswagon, or a Honda or a Mitsubishi for that matter. I own some things that came from some Nazis... they were brought back by US soldiers as spoils of war. That "context" is being quickly forgotten and erased even in museums. The context should be considered as bad things happened by very bad people, yet there were those who aided in ending those terrible things. The only reason some of those objects exist is because some on the Allied side brought those items home. Once again it's only with Nazi stuff. I've never seen anyone mad about WWII Japanese swords, Italian Fasces, Soviet Stalin era artifacts, etc. The Mercury dime depicts a Fasces, Mussolini's symbol which Fascism is derived from. It is found all over the US.Hell, the Supreme Court building in Washington DC was built with Italian marble purchased in the 1930s from Mussolini. Stalin's Soviet Union is credited as being an Allied power but definitely had agreed prior to split Poland with Hitler's Germany. Stalin was just as bad as Hitler but the Hammer and Sickle doesn't cause any upset compared to the Swastika. I would ask for it to make sense but I don't have to, as history isn't written by the victor, it's just taught by the propagandist.[/QUOTE]