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Message:: [QUOTE="writerdianalee, post: 749396, member: 21850"]I saw a lot of Nazi coins that had been for sale that were all marked "sold" just yesterday and in watching a movie earlier this week an actor was asked a question by his g/f -- why do people want to collect Nazi stuff? Well ... it's just that the Nazi era was so rife with conflict that it still occupies folks' minds and to own a Nazi coin is to own a part of that history. There is a fascination with the Holocaust because (IMO) it was so mind boggling that Hitler got away with everything he did for so long before the world woke up and stopped him. My mother-in-law was a nurse under Patton who went into the concentration camps after the war was over and for the rest of her life she couldn't even  talk about it -- or watch a movie or read a book about it -- not until she was in her late 70s when it all started coming out. "The Horror," she called it. Most of us can only imagine. I think another reason is there are a lot of Nazi-type folks out there that, sick as it is, revere such hatred for anyone who is different and admire Hitler. Right or wrong, and I of course believe it's wrong and wouldn't buy any of those coins, I believe those are some of the reasons. I think also others are dispassionate about the war even now and would buy the pieces for curiosity's sake. Just my thoughts.[/QUOTE]