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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Luis, post: 659904, member: 17336&quot;]Goldstone: No one can really tell you that your feelings are in the wrong place. They are YOUR feelings. If you abhor nazism and the third reich (as well you should), as the vile actions they perpetrated are still fresh in society&#039;s memory, then by all means, do not collect their coins. You can even pretend they didn&#039;t exist at all. Now, this is about your feelings. Your reasoning, on the other hand, could hardly be more faulty. Some of the reasons for this have been very well put by some other people, and I will allow myself to lean onto their words:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is an excellent and eloquent post that I totally subscribe.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>What a great use of sarcasm (in my view of it)! Seriously, in 100, 200, years, will anyone feel as strongly towards WWII and the third reich as some people feel now? If your answer is yes, then you are definitely incapable of thinking outside of the zeitgeist you happened to be brought up on.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>You really have to realize the importance of collecting these items as an effort to understand history - this is one small step in the direction of avoiding its repetition. Refusing to accept symbols and artifacts from a certain part of history is a small step in the opposite direction. That is but a small scale propaganda action - the same kind of history rewriting that fascist and communist regimes love to do.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Your list&#039;s most salient feature is that it&#039;s extremely short, which reinforces your point.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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