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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1666555, member: 12789&quot;]I appreciate people who collect them as a historical pieces, but I do have a problem with people that collect the coins, fly the swastikas and go around doing the up raised salute like that Greek soccer player did the other day.&nbsp; Greece suffered miserably under the Nazi occupation - the guy is a traitor to his country and more importantly to humanity.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t like Nazi coins myself, they give me the chills - my German ancestors left Germany to escape the Prussian Junker militarists during the Franco-Prussian War.&nbsp; My Great Great Grandfather then sent his sons to fight in the US Army and told them he wanted them to save his fatherland from the Prussian militarists.&nbsp; The final gasps of the Junker dynasty played out with the defeat of Germany in 1945.&nbsp; So I have a deep respect for the greatness of Germany but a deep loathing for that period of history when ordinary Germans and everybody that bordered Germany had to suffer because of maniacal idiots.&nbsp; I have a few Hamburg and Bremen coins, where my family came from - and I collect German commemoratives up to the time the Nazi&#039;s coup d&#039;etat.&nbsp; But one of my cousins gave his life during the Battle of the Bulge because of the SS - 68 years later I do not forget that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let us not forget that many ordinary people got caught up in the Nazi destruction - of Germany.&nbsp; If you didn&#039;t like the Nazis you would end up in a concentration camp just as easy as someone judged &quot;not aryan&quot;.&nbsp; Those people didn&#039;t care when bombs rained down and destroyed whole cities, when whole populations were wiped out by invading armies - in fact Hitler wanted to punish Germany by letting it be destroyed - for letting him down.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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