N'oublions pas....or Lest we forget. I personally had a great uncle who spent several years as a POW in the concentration camps, and lost his entire family at the hands of the Germans( a brother in service to his country, and his mother, father and sister in a concentration camp), so I can put a personal face on this as well, however, I think that banning the swastika chips because they remind you of the Nazi era is going a little overboard. If anything, I thought you would encourage the trading of those chips, in order that a symbol (even though these had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING EVER to do with Nazi Germany) that is easily recognizable and associated with the atrocities and horrors of the war remains around to ensure that we never become complacent and lax in taking measures to ensure the same hell on earth ever occurs again. If I follow your principles Bernie, then I should never speak to my great uncle again, as he has a German dagger(complete with the Swastika) he took off a German Officer he killed in combat. Nor my ex girlfriend's Grandfather and Uncle, as the Grandfather was a Colonel in the US Army and the Uncle a Captain in the Navy, and both proudly display medals and other items they received in recognition of their combat in WWII. Are those not also symbols that remind us of(albeit the positive side of what came) the atrocities? After all, if they had not had to fight to overthrow those ways, they would have never received those medals. Anyway, I am starting to ramble, but I can't logically agree that the Swastika chips should be banned. Just my opinion.
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