Goswinus
10-15-2010, 03:17 PM
The first German exhibition since the Second World War to deal exclusively with the taboo subject of Adolf Hitler opens in Berlin tomorrow despite organisers' concerns it may be used as a shrine by neo-Nazis or invoke angry criticism from Holocaust survivors.
Full text:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/hitler-exhibition-breaks-germanys-last-taboo-2106121.html
A friend of mine quipped that if Hitler and National Socialism were indeed so bad, why don't simply show the facts show without patronizing the layman. Let history speak for itself, let everyone draw their own conclusions, without the whole emotional sermon to condemn the regime as expression of pure evil.
Frankly, to me there is more to German history than 12 years of National Socialism and World War II (without disparaging the wrongdoings nor ignoring some interesting developments that could meet people's approval even if they abhor totalitarism).
I would add another quip, this one from me. If it wasn't for Hitler and his mates a lot of historians and writers wouldn't know what to write about, and some directors would be hard-pressed to find a worthy enemy for their Indiana Jones and Dirty Dozens... Hardly substantial for intellectual warfare, but fits the bill nonetheless.
Full text:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/hitler-exhibition-breaks-germanys-last-taboo-2106121.html
A friend of mine quipped that if Hitler and National Socialism were indeed so bad, why don't simply show the facts show without patronizing the layman. Let history speak for itself, let everyone draw their own conclusions, without the whole emotional sermon to condemn the regime as expression of pure evil.
Frankly, to me there is more to German history than 12 years of National Socialism and World War II (without disparaging the wrongdoings nor ignoring some interesting developments that could meet people's approval even if they abhor totalitarism).
I would add another quip, this one from me. If it wasn't for Hitler and his mates a lot of historians and writers wouldn't know what to write about, and some directors would be hard-pressed to find a worthy enemy for their Indiana Jones and Dirty Dozens... Hardly substantial for intellectual warfare, but fits the bill nonetheless.