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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 295355, member: 39&quot;]Get it back onto the track then. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; As others wrote before, there is a big difference between symbols that were/are commonly recognized as those of dictatorial regimes, and others that were or are in fairly common use. The fasces can be found in many contexts in various countries - they are still on the cover of every French passport, for example, as a symbol of controlled power. Why should they have been removed from US coins?</p><p><br /></p><p>With the swastika it is a little different - it had not been a commonly used element in &quot;political iconography&quot; in Europe or North America before the nazis made it their symbol. Maybe, if a swastika had been on a British or American coin in the 1930s, it would have disappeared by the end of that decade, simply because of the all too obvious connotation. But the fasces, or the eagle, or the stars?</p><p><br /></p><p>Jerome is perfectly right, by the way, when he writes that the WW2 allies were strict regarding the use of nazi and fascist symbols. But that applied to the occupied countries, where they had been symbols of the dictatorial regimes. After WW2 quite a lot of &quot;nazi eagles&quot; at official buildings in Germany, were de-swastika-ed. Looked kind of strange in various cases when the eagle remained, with a blank circle or an empty wreath in its claws.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Edit -- Darn, I wanted to add a picture of the German 1 Pf 1944 coin with the wreath and swastika removed (Jaeger 373a) but cannot find it ...</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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