Hitler's Bunker vs Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
Left below this parking lot is the site
where Hitler spent his final days leading up to his suicide. Marked
only buy a small sign erected by the residents in the surrounding
apartments to put an end to tourists knocking on their doors asking
if their homes were Hitler's bunker. A sheer sign of how the people
of Germany chose to remember their heinous dictator.
Adjacent to this site is the
controversial Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. A vast expanse
of large gray blocks of varying heights, stand row after row to be
interpreted however the millions of visitor each year wish.The
controversy is that it is only to remember the Jews murdered and no
other group. Smaller and far less impressive memorials were later
built nearby for groups like the Romas and Homosexuals also murdered
in the holocaust, leaving much to debate today.
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