Hitler exhibition breaks Germany's last taboo

[Goswinus]

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.
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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.

[anonymaus]

Surely a non-partisan exhibit featuring Adolf Hitler is no more disturbing than von Hagens' Body Worlds.

[The Silent Man]

Hitler surely must be Europe's greatest misfortune. Without his crimes leftist-liberals would not have the Shoah, the most effective weapon in their racist armoury, and contemporary Germans would not carry a millstone around their necks.

[anonymaus]

and contemporary Germans would not carry a millstone around their necks.

Don't be silly. We would still have German mothers. :)

[The Silent Man]

Don't be silly. We would still have German mothers. :)

He he he! You mean German mothers are like Jewish mothers?

And they'd still have mothers-in-law - Jesus!