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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 1331106, member: 12789&quot;]If you have any more than a meager holding of gold - no doubt there is a trace of it somewhere that has been stolen, looted, killed for, ripped out of mouths etc.&nbsp; It is a regrettable fact - it says nothing really about the gold itself but volumes about human behaviour.&nbsp; I personally loath the whole setup that was transpiring in Germany during that time, but one cannot bury their heads in the sands and pretend it didn&#039;t happen.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Nazis were notable for stealing whole countries, cultures, creeds etc.&nbsp; For example:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/germany/germany201939dtl.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>She is <b>Austrian</b>, notice the <b>Austrian</b> Alps behind her - she is holding an Edelweiss - an <b>Austrian</b> flower that is even recounted in a well known song.&nbsp; The <b>Austrian</b> National Bank had planned a 100 schillinge note with this vignette and many elements of the following note:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/germany/germany201939.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>But when the verminous filth referring to themselves as &quot;Aryans&quot; rolled in they appropriated this design for themselves and used it on their note for 20RM.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1947 the Austrians had the last gasp on this design, finally realising an issue of the note with a new feminine vignette and re-<b>Austrianising </b>the design:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/austria/austria1001947dtl.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>A very lovely and pensive portraiture for this note:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/austria/austria1001947.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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