Peter, I am not sure that any of us automatically approve or endorse the acts of the issuing bodies of any of these medals. For example, I surely don't celebrate British imperialism in India in my main collecting field! The difference with Nazi stuff is the swastika, and the power of that now-offensive symbol is such that special treatment is needed. And, as you know, this generates ongoing problems for Hindus. I see no use -- on this forum, though I am told that Another Forum still plays gleefully in this sewer -- to get into the "whose atrocities were bigger", especially when this game is usually played with the conscious intent of asserting that Adolf and his "Aryans" weren't all THAT bad, when compared to ___. If we were to be brutally honest, there are few "saints" among the folks who issued any of the medals we study and that the deeds these medals represent were often "war crimes". Everyone is or can be a "murderous b***ard"? We are, I hope, approaching all this as historians and not as patriots or politicians? Ed