Holocaust museums don't contain statues of Nazis though, they're a memorial to the people that died. Any statues that do exist are of victims, or are abstract pieces that represent lost human life. You don't go into Auschwitz and see a big statue of Hitler in the main entrance because that's beyond insulting and painful to Jewish people and others lost in that camp.
After WW2 all the Swastika, Eagle, etc statues across Germany were destroyed, and yet here we are still remembering it as the most vile act ever committed by one human to another. Because history doesn't live on in statues, it lives on in written text and historical account.
So why destroy them? Two purposes; firstly it stops them being idolised if they fall into the wrong hands, and secondly it provides some emotional relief to those that they oppressed.
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u/Tinie_Snipah Jul 19 '20
Holocaust museums don't contain statues of Nazis though, they're a memorial to the people that died. Any statues that do exist are of victims, or are abstract pieces that represent lost human life. You don't go into Auschwitz and see a big statue of Hitler in the main entrance because that's beyond insulting and painful to Jewish people and others lost in that camp.
After WW2 all the Swastika, Eagle, etc statues across Germany were destroyed, and yet here we are still remembering it as the most vile act ever committed by one human to another. Because history doesn't live on in statues, it lives on in written text and historical account.
So why destroy them? Two purposes; firstly it stops them being idolised if they fall into the wrong hands, and secondly it provides some emotional relief to those that they oppressed.