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<p>[QUOTE="Seattlite86, post: 24553438, member: 59737"]Sure, but that's not at all what I'm talking about. Though to your point, calling it "the mark of the dreaded German war machine" rewrites history to omit that it was also the "mark of the totalitarian regime that systematically murdered millions of men, women, and children." The post I saw fails to reflect our history properly. </p><p><br /></p><p>I'm not against owning them, or displaying them, I'm against those who present the swastika in a positive light, and those that claim they buy them for "historical value" but only buy German WWII items with swastikas while neglecting all the others.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Absolutely, even here in the US, it was a good luck symbol and could be found on numerous good luck coins. Unfortunately, the German Empire took the symbol and used it as their banner for evil. And more unfortunately, that evil banner draws a lot of eager attention in the US.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Seattlite86, post: 24553438, member: 59737"]Sure, but that's not at all what I'm talking about. Though to your point, calling it "the mark of the dreaded German war machine" rewrites history to omit that it was also the "mark of the totalitarian regime that systematically murdered millions of men, women, and children." The post I saw fails to reflect our history properly. I'm not against owning them, or displaying them, I'm against those who present the swastika in a positive light, and those that claim they buy them for "historical value" but only buy German WWII items with swastikas while neglecting all the others. Absolutely, even here in the US, it was a good luck symbol and could be found on numerous good luck coins. Unfortunately, the German Empire took the symbol and used it as their banner for evil. And more unfortunately, that evil banner draws a lot of eager attention in the US.[/QUOTE]
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