Holocaust Memorial in Berlin
“It held the line against the bad, allowing for its deconstruction, and the universalization of our economic model, to be followed, through our continued success, by the universalization of our political model.”
via Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog.
When lessons are learned
“Germany was a country where horrible crimes were committed in the second world war, and at least on the surface of it the republic we are now has dealt with many of those crimes. There were Nuremburg trials, “Entnazifizierung”, the 60s revolts of young people looking at their parents’ generation and seeing the Nazi horrors again. And now things are…calm? When I was a teenager and learnt about what happened in Germany between 1933 and 1945, I remember feeling the guilt. It’s just hard to believe that all this happened where you now sleep and walk and laugh. Berlin is a city where the Germans have put up many memorials, and I guess one of the reasons why I think it’s a great country now: Because people have tried to put up reminders not to accuse, but to warn us from making the same mistakes again.”
via kersy83, Flickr
The value of retrospect
Lessons learned, from epic war, or humanitarian disaster: What do you see?
