Lord, I can't believe they elected a mayor specifically for his promise to keep the bell. It's a freaking bell, and one dedicated to none other than Adolf Hitler for crying out loud. Any...
Lord, I can't believe they elected a mayor specifically for his promise to keep the bell. It's a freaking bell, and one dedicated to none other than Adolf Hitler for crying out loud. Any sentimental value I might have had for a bell like that would have been lost when I found out it was dedicated to Adolf Hitler and inscribed with a swastika.
Sitting on a bench one afternoon this summer, a group of residents listed local infrastructure created under the Nazis: the autobahn between Heidelberg and Mannheim, a housing estate in nearby Freinsheim.
“Should we destroy all that?” asked Roland Pox, who lives adjacent to the church and was walking his dog. “It’s absurd.”
I hate this kind of argument. No one is suggesting that we get rid of everything the Nazis made. We're suggesting that we get rid of things that praise or glorify them. You know, like this freaking church bell inscribed with a swastika and a quote from Adolf himself.
I'm always torn with things like this. Preserving v. Destroying an element of history, that is. I consume a lot of media about history, and specifically the ancient world. The scholar or lecturer...
I'm always torn with things like this. Preserving v. Destroying an element of history, that is.
I consume a lot of media about history, and specifically the ancient world. The scholar or lecturer always laments how few monuments and artifacts have stood the test of time, and sometimes how many of those have been defaced or destroyed throughout history. So much has been lost.
Maybe we have more than enough in this instance, maybe we don't have enough. Not specific to WWII, but to all time periods of history. It could just be me, but I've always felt such a strong disconnect between history and the life of present-day. I think perhaps that people should more often see reminders that, yes such-and-such thing actually happened. People really lived and loved and hated and killed and died doing such-a-thing in such-a-place.
In the US, our current social conversation is in regards to the Confederate Memorials. Some folks think, like Mr. Welker in this article, that they're history and that's why they should stay. Others think they ought to be destroyed, and some have even done so. Personally, I think they absolutely need to go. They're symbols and monuments to hatred and deserve no place in public. But I think they belong in a museum as well. Not to glorify them or allow them to be a specter of supremacy, but to educate the people on what they are, and why they are.
Call it a personal flaw, as I understand my opinion is based largely in feeling, but I don't think I will ever be for destroying a piece of history. Not unless it's absolutely necessary.
Lord, I can't believe they elected a mayor specifically for his promise to keep the bell. It's a freaking bell, and one dedicated to none other than Adolf Hitler for crying out loud. Any sentimental value I might have had for a bell like that would have been lost when I found out it was dedicated to Adolf Hitler and inscribed with a swastika.
I hate this kind of argument. No one is suggesting that we get rid of everything the Nazis made. We're suggesting that we get rid of things that praise or glorify them. You know, like this freaking church bell inscribed with a swastika and a quote from Adolf himself.
It belongs in a museum.
That's where history we shouldn't forget goes.
I'm always torn with things like this. Preserving v. Destroying an element of history, that is.
I consume a lot of media about history, and specifically the ancient world. The scholar or lecturer always laments how few monuments and artifacts have stood the test of time, and sometimes how many of those have been defaced or destroyed throughout history. So much has been lost.
Maybe we have more than enough in this instance, maybe we don't have enough. Not specific to WWII, but to all time periods of history. It could just be me, but I've always felt such a strong disconnect between history and the life of present-day. I think perhaps that people should more often see reminders that, yes such-and-such thing actually happened. People really lived and loved and hated and killed and died doing such-a-thing in such-a-place.
In the US, our current social conversation is in regards to the Confederate Memorials. Some folks think, like Mr. Welker in this article, that they're history and that's why they should stay. Others think they ought to be destroyed, and some have even done so. Personally, I think they absolutely need to go. They're symbols and monuments to hatred and deserve no place in public. But I think they belong in a museum as well. Not to glorify them or allow them to be a specter of supremacy, but to educate the people on what they are, and why they are.
Call it a personal flaw, as I understand my opinion is based largely in feeling, but I don't think I will ever be for destroying a piece of history. Not unless it's absolutely necessary.