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Originally Posted by Glice
How is it 'bragging' to lay bare the architecture of what amount to the 20th-century's epitome of despair? I'm not saying there weren't equal or possibly worse tragedies, but you're on astonishingly thin ice to say that it's 'bragging'.
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It is bragging in the same sense that the Confederate flag as the state flag of three southern states is bragging. The DeathCamps are a powerful visible symbol of the merciless power that the Nazis exercised..
to leave them is the same as leaving the Pantheon in Rome, it is a visual reminder of the achievements of the previous empires, and in this instance, the achievement is nothing to keep around. To keep the buildings alive and standing is to keep the Nazis alive..
as a tribute to the ELEVEN MILLION people who perished in those camps, they should be burned and leveled to the ground, and a lovely cemetery put up in its place. I have seen several holocaust memorials that perfectly capture this feeling, and so honestly, I think leaving the camps up is redundent and ineffective.. The american sponsers and the jews who fund these things to keep open want to give the Germans an eternal black eye, but if you ask me, I think those whose grandparents and parents in Germany perpetuated this crime, can't help but look back with a bit of accomplishment, just as today southerners look back to the Confederacy as some kind of glory days..
Slave castles and concentration camps have no purpose once you rid yourself of slavery and genocide. They simply extend the wound, like wearing a band-aid to visibly exaggerate and show off a scar..
In this instance, I feel that the Germans leave these camps up the way a soldier or a fighter BRAGS about his battle scars, and Jews and Poles, Slavs and Czechs, (5 million NONJEWS were also killed, its not just a jewish thing but a European thing) keep picking at the scab..
Lets actually HEAL these wounds. NEVER forget, but please, remember with
taste and dignity.