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Rest in Peace
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And, now, for something completely different: A Nazi Travels to Palestine (medal) ?obverse: "EIN NAZI FAHRT NACH PALASTINA" w/ Star of David ?reverse: "UNDERZAHLT DAVONIM Angriff" w/ Swastika https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0...2424,00.htmlPutting the "exo" in "exonumia"? Cheers, /s/ ikeyPikey  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Wow. Never would have guessed. Thanks for sharing.
BTW-You did not space the words correctly on the reverse...
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That is... really interesting. "A NAZI RIDE TO PALASTINA" "AND TELL IT IN THE ATTACK" Does not seem very nice?  |
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Pillar of the Community
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I had not realized that there was a German settlement in what is now Tel Aviv called Sarona, until a couple of years ago when I came across a couple of tokens from that site... Quite an interesting piece ikey!
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Quote:
That is... really interesting.
"A NAZI RIDE TO PALASTINA"
"AND TELL IT IN THE ATTACK"
Does not seem very nice? It translates better when you include the umlauts over the "A"s.  I believe the best translation of it would be "A Nazi travels to Palestine / and tells about it in the Angriff" - "the Angriff" being the name of the Nazi propaganda newspaper. As the linked article explains, these medals were given away to Angriff subscribers at the time the articles in question were being published. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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I did add the umlauts, but I guess Google is not a perfect translator.  |
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Rest in Peace
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And some of you were wondering why I omitted the "pass through gTranslate" step ;)
Thanks, Sap.
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It seems strange to think about it now but in the early days of the Nazi party, there were those within the party who favored the establishment of a free Jewish state as a solution to the Question. The increasing paranoia and lust for power of Eichmann, Heydrich, Hitler, and the like ensured that their vehemently anti-Semitic rhetoric would dominate the Nazi party after the mid 30s, and those more moderate towards "the Jewish question" were threatened, coerced, and otherwise prevailed upon to either toe the line or be treated as traitors to the Party. This does not make the moderates into "good" Nazis, merely a tiny fraction less evil. Once the starving and broken German public had been convinced that their suffering was due to Jews, mental defectives, deserters, saboteurs, cowards, and the impure non-Aryan races -- it was a foregone conclusion that what happened would happen, and there was never any real chance that the few rational Party members would have been able to stop the impending disaster.
And yet, at least there was that most tenuous glimmer of hope, faint though it may have been, and this token reflects upon that brief period where that faint spark of hope was yet to be fully snuffed.
Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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Well, looking at it from the other point of view... no true Nazi would have tolerated the idea of a free and independent Jewish state influencing world opinion. Any Jewish state in Palestine would have had to be created under the protection of Britain, who owned Palestine at the time. If the idea of a Jewish state in Palestine had taken off in the 1930s, and if the Nazis had then gone to war with Britain anyway, and then prevailed (as any Nazi would have assumed would happen in the event of a war with Britain)... then the Nazis would have captured Palestine along with the rest of the British and French territories in the Middle East and would have been able to turn the entire country into a giant concentration camp. They wouldn't have had to round up all the Jews, they'd have rounded themselves up voluntarily.
Speaking of imaginary scenarios, there already were many Jews living in Palestine in the 1930s, including many Russian Jews who had fled from Imperial and then Soviet persecutions. Imagine what might have happened to them if Rommel's Afrika Korps had prevailed and swept through Egypt and into Palestine.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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This topic has proven to be more interesting that I had thought. I thank you all.  |
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