INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE TODAY:

Most countries celebrate the best in their past. Germany unrelentingly promotes its worst.
The enormous Holocaust memorial that dominates a chunk of central Berlin was completed only after years of debate. But the building of monuments to the Nazi disgrace continues unabated. On Monday, the German minister of culture, Bernd Neumann, announced that construction could begin in Berlin on two monuments, one near the Reichstag to slain members of the gypsy groups, known here as the Sinti and Roma, and another not far from the Brandenburg Gate to gays and lesbians killed in the Holocaust.


Most countries celebrate the best in their past. Germany unrelentingly promotes its worst.

The enormous Holocaust memorial that dominates a chunk of central Berlin was completed only after years of debate. But the building of monuments to the Nazi disgrace continues unabated. On Monday, the German minister of culture, Bernd Neumann, announced that construction could begin in Berlin on two monuments, one near the Reichstag to slain members of the gypsy groups, known here as the Sinti and Roma, and another not far from the Brandenburg Gate to gays and lesbians killed in the Holocaust.

Honoring Nazi victims as witnesses fade - International Herald Tribune

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I am slipping big time, bad enough Gordon beats me to it, now Skipper67 beating me to the news.

Not what you call nice, far from it.

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Regards, Richard

I'll be abroad for 48 hours from tomorrow so I won't be around to make you slip

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Skipper, I hope you will acknowledge the saying that "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder"...what some might think of the building of a monument as a "glorification", in a positive sense of a great achievement, others may think of the same monument as a sad reminder of something or someone who has passed and that would not want to be forgotten.

We build monuments to the dead, don't we?

All I am saying is that the views of this writer, perhaps even your own, are indeed his or your own. Don't make the mistake that because you see it one way, that everyone must see it that way too.

You wrote your post - then copied it twice in the same space...now to me that's strange, given the current practices and the availablity of the "Edit" function, and perhaps, by doing that you are really trying to emphasize your opinions (?); but in the end, it's your call, your post. What I think about it - and therefore about you - doesn't need to enter into it.

It's all subjective...

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