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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 444687, member: 39&quot;]Pretty much the same as certain &quot;Support Our Troops&quot; slogans in a different country much more recently. In order to not appear &quot;unpatriotic&quot;, people donated gold and got an iron medal, button, etc. as a token of appreciation. That button, or whatever, you could then proudly wear - and people who still had gold, even wore it in public, would appear to not support the &quot;nation&#039;s common goal&quot; or whatever the propaganda says. Such initiatives predate WW1 though. <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_gab_ich_für_Eisen" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_gab_ich_für_Eisen" rel="nofollow">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_gab_ich_für_Eisen</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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