Gegen das Erkalten des Erinnerns / Against the freezing of Memories

Europe, indeed, the whole world, is littered with concentration-camp memorials, information centres, memorial plaques, and other signs that have been set up as a reminder of the atrocities committed by the National Socialists and their numerous willing helpers. In the United States alone, there are around 100 Holocaust memorials. In Germany, there are over 500 of all kinds of memorial facilities commemorating the Nazi victims. Perhaps without these facilities, the deeds of that time would h...