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Old February 4th 09, 12:05 PM posted to rec.collecting.coins
Dave Welsh
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Default Collections Confiscated - Coin Collectors criminalized

Unfortunately before that happened, "der Dicke" cleverly made fools of the
Allied authorities conducting the Nueremburg war crimes trials. First, he
made the prosecutor who questioned him look like a complete idiot - and then
he cheated the hangman. Whatever one may think of his politics and morals,
Goering was a forceful and able personality.

As to who in the Third Reich would have been the bane of coin collectors, I
am inclined to think that Heinrich Himmler would be a far more appropriate
choice. While Goering was not the sort of person one would wish to be
associated with, he was a dedicated collector of "cultural objects."
Particularly, those that had once been owned by Jews ... the "objekte."

Dave Welsh


"William Earl Haskell" wrote in message
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Dave Welsh wrote:
German numismatists ring the alarm bells

German cultural authorities have begun searching private homes and

seizing
entire collections of antique coins,


I thought Hermann Goering was dead.



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