Why there are no Nazi statues in Germany

Aug 20, 2017, 1:23 PM

"What the South can learn from post-war Europe."

"Whatever else I may forget,” the ex-slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass said in 1894, “I shall never forget the difference between those who fought for liberty and those who fought for slavery.” Douglass (who is doing an amazing job and is being recognized more and more) deplored an emerging national consensus that the Civil War had been fought over vague philosophical disagreements about federalism and states’ rights, but not over the core issue of slavery. In this retelling, neither side was right or wrong, and both Confederate and Union soldiers were to be celebrated for their battlefield valor.

Douglass was right to be concerned. Southerners may have lost the Civil War, but between the 1890s and 1920s they won the first great battle over its official memory. They fought that battle in popular literature, history books and college curricula, but also on hundreds of courthouse steps and city squares, where they erected monuments to Confederate veterans and martyrs. These statues reinforced the romance of reunion."

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/20/why-there-are-no-nazi-statues-in-germany-215510?lo=ap_d1

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mistaken, Nazi Germany wanted to takeover all of Europe and most any land contiguous to what it already occupied. They killed millions of innocent people that they painted as an enemy for idealogical convenience. Also, if I'm not mistaken, the South started the war to break away from the United States, with no intention of occupying lands it did not considered it's own or killing innocent civilians.

As deplorable as it was to fight to keep the institution of slavery, it bears a remarkable difference to a nation with the desire to expand it's empire to it's farthest reaches killing everything and everyone along the way. In other words...there's a difference.

As for the statues, most being erected from 1890s to 1940s, if they were erected as symbols to support Jim Crow laws...bring'em on down. During that time, also, many southern veterans of the war were dying off. Many of these veterans were local heroes, if the statues were erected to honor them...let'em stand. Study history and put them where they belong, if it's a town square or a museum fine. Let each municipality decide up or down.

To compare Nazis to Confederates is a bit disingenuous, but also don't suffer the fools of racism, either.

Why there are no Nazi statues in Germany

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Re: Why there are no Nazi statues in Germany

I see what you're saying

Lol!

The author kinda misses a major premise. If I'm not

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