ave the Jews. Among them was the much-maligned Pope Pius XII, his legacy perhaps the most controversial focused not on the fact that he saved lives, but that he did not save enough.
Long after the war in 2003 a memorial was planned to all the Murdered Jews of Europe. The location was extremely apt, it was a stones throw to Hitler’s former bunker, in the area of Hitler’s former administrative building, along the road that all German parliamentarians have to drive to to get to work and surrounded by foreign embassies. It is a marker of history, a lesson from the past and a reminder to the present. The monument is made up of 2711 rectangular concrete blocks each with a different bent and height, shaped almost like a graveyard. The architect who designed it did not leave any interpretation and left the interpretation to those who visited.
In that vein, I too will not leave my interpretation, but merely leave some pictures within the site and let you decide.
Antiseminitsm is something that we critisize today, but sometimes its easy to forget that prejudice exists all round – there are one group of people in Europe who are still the subject of much prejudice today and who similarly suffered massively during the Holocaust – the Roma Porajmos.
Those who do not learn from history and doomed to repeat it.
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