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NAZI MEMORABILIA
I. R. Bama
163 Posts
Hmmm coins are coins. They represent history. Whether it is good or bad. They deserve being preserved and displayed lest we forget what Nazi Germany did.
Would there be a loud outcry against PRC coins. After all they are committing genocide against Uegar Muslims. I'm betting Blackrock and PCNG don't care as they live those esg scores. I was so disappointed to see The Numismatist celebrate a lot of Chinese coins along with PNCG in a recent edition. By the way, is ANA using ESG scores. I was just wondering what somebody got banned for and perhaps his ESG score got a little too low.
I. R. Bama
163 Posts
One has to consider how far you want to take this. Maybe get rid of all the Vichy French coins and all the Mussolini issues. Austria, they were on board with it. Then there is the CCCP coins and their history of pogroms against the Jews. We could go on the cancel culture of numismatics. Next thing will be southern U.S. Commemoratives. We can't have that Stone Mountain anymore.
And now with what just happened in Canada? Definitely going to have to dispose of those coins.
No we don't. We don't have to do any of that. Just study them and understand them for what they are.
Longstrider
435 Posts
@Bama, you make some very good points, very good. Presented that way, I now believe I made a mistake. I retract my previous statements. In no way do I want the world to forget. That is why then Gen. Ike marched our troops through the extermination camps. Never to forget. Thank you.
1 year agoLongstrider
435 Posts
Hey, Where is my post? This is stupid now. No statement, just comments. Come on!!!!
1 year agoLong Beard
227 Posts
I never had, nor do I have, a problem with anyone who collects Nazi memorabilia so long as they don't push the ideology on myself or anyone else. To each their own. Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Those words still hold meaning.
1 year agoI. R. Bama
163 Posts
True confessions time: my father's father came from Germany after world war I. But he had family who fought for Nazi Germany and were actually members of the SS. From my grandmother's collection I inherited these particular coins. I take no great pleasure in owning these coins except they came from my family and it is unfortunate to me that my extended family was involved in something so evil.
If I were to present them here, it would be with the caveat that this is a dark unhappy part of my family's history. Yet they should be preserved and presented in proper historical context, lest we forget. Truly it is sad we are not teaching our children history anymore. Go try this yourself: ask any 10 young adults about WW II. Most don't know what the Holocaust was