Tag: wwii

jalehh:

beachdeath:

“germany didn’t destroy auschwitz so we shouldn’t destroy confederate monuments” is a weird argument to make because auschwitz remains open to memorialize holocaust victims while providing education and maintaining tangible evidence of genocide, whereas american slave plantations remain open not as monuments to murdered and brutalized slaves but as luxury-destination wedding venues which promote themselves as providing “the romance of an Antebellum-style mansion, beautifully decorated and meticulously landscaped; the luxury of an all-inclusive venue, where extraordinary service and elegance are paramount, and nothing is sacrificed; the magic of having your dreams come true, while the vision you’ve had for your special day is perfectly executed.” 

like, yes, germany preserves nazi history and america preserves confederate history, but one difference between the two is that germans don’t routinely shell out thousands of dollars to hold fairytale weddings on the graves of jews.

Excuse you all, german here!
While the sentiment is very commendable and holds true for (death through work-) camps like Dachau, Sachsenhausen or Bergen-Belsen (and more) nowadays (do not think that in the late 1940 and 1950 ppl wanted to remember their crimes), you need to understand that the death camps were all ‘conveniently’ placed outside of mainland Germany and in the East (Treblinka, Sorbibor, Belzec, Kulmhof,

Maly Trostinez, Bronnaja Gora,

Majdanek and Auschwitz [which was a hybrid of a death camp and death through work camp]).
   
What I am saying is that Auschwitz is a POLISH museum. The POLISH parliament decided

in 1947 to make it one. So do not forget that it was the Polish people who made a memorial and educational place out of this. The very first memorial place was the KZ Majdanek in 1944 btw., which is also in Poland.

And keeping alive the memory of the murdered people by Germany and the Nazi ideology all over Europe is done by all affected Nations, because in the early 1940 you could find concentrations camps everywhere – even in North-Africa.