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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;huntsman53, post: 659811, member: 1242&quot;]I know that the OP was only wanting to make a point about History and coins connected to it but these type of Threads due a great disservice to great folks like <b>chrisild</b>, <b>Eduard</b>, other members of German descent and the German people as a whole! I see articles, documentaries, movies, blogs and Threads where the German people as a whole are generally characterized as Nazis and this is wrong. Most of these same were written by folks who do not have even a small grasp of what went down (History-wise) with Hitler coming to power, the formation of the Nazi Party &amp; continued recruitment into it, World War II and the extermination of Jews! That they don&#039;t even know or choose to ignore the facts of how a Mad Man which was not even German but actually Austrian who apparently had some Jewish Ancestory (which he hated fiercely for what reason, no one really knows), was able to take control of Germany and convince other Mad Men to follow his&#039; cause. Germans as a whole are a very proud and honorable people and thousands upon thousands tried to stand up to Hitler and the Nazi Party but failed. Because of this, many thousands of good German folk were slaughtered or died while being imprisoned in Concentration Camps. My Ex-Wife&#039;s Grandfather was one of these. Eugene Georg Keller hid out on the roof tops of Lich, Germany for three days while the Nazi Party was in his little town (Stadt) of Lich for recruiting into the Nazi Party. Although he avoided becoming a member of the Nazi Party, he was still drafted into the German Army, sent to the Eastern Front where he was wounded, captured and imprisoned by the Russians and if it were not for an Allied Force stumbling upon the Prison camp where he and many others were incarcerated, would have been killed by the Russians. In fact, the Russian Squad that was ordered to exterminate the German prisoners in the Prison Camp, showed up not long after the Allied Force found the Camp and tried to convince them to leave but they would not. Even after many years, knowing what he went through and losing two sons during the War as well as another one murdered by an American GI, his&#039; wife always treated with the greatest of respect and honor and would not let anyone treat me otherwise!</p><p><br /></p><p>I would never dishonor the memory of those who perished due to the Holocaust and War but believe that mis-characterization of a people needs to stop! I hope that everyone understands my reasoning behind this post and if I have offended anyone...including the OP, then I am truly sorry! That was not my intention!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Frank[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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