Davos Photo? The conspiracy theorists are going to have field day with this.
They call it a monument but also a mausoleum. The fact that it hasn’t been discovered until now makes it seem that it’s not a big deal. Time, weather and natural entropy will deal with it.
This monument is a memorial to german dead soldiers during WW1. Doesn’t matter the side they were on, and WW1 thinking was fairly different from today anyway. I don’t see why that’s a big deal, it’s just history and should not be forgotten.
I don’t see why it’s in switzerland though? Anyone knows more?
Nazi didn’t exist in WW1. Nazi’s not even the proper name for them. NSDAP is the proper name. And initially was just DAP.
They only began a thing when Hitler “stole” the National German Worker’s Party (NSDAP), that INITIALLY was a left party, and that he made far-right very quickly by killing anyone who was leaning left or had other ideals that didn’t match Völkisch ideas.
And initially this party existed right after WW1 to counter communism by using the Völkisch movement. And exploited it up until its end, at the end of WW2.
And the worst part of all of this, is that we’re still very vulnerable to such trains of thoughts today.
Hitler’s youth. That was pretty much what made WW2 possible. And if we look at today’s world, any nation with high levels censorship can create such monster again.
hmmm… Maybe this’ll be too nuanced for reddit, but here goes…
On one hand, as far as I can tell it has no explicit Nazi iconography and is just in the general style they favoured (which to be fair, so is most of Bavaria, yet predates the nazis), and it’s a memorial to WW1 dead, which on it’s own are not bad things needing action…
*However*, it wasn’t built just as a monument to the dead, and it’s naive to think that this is the case, it was built to communicate nazi ideals. The continual construction of huge stateus. memorials, buildings etc was a key part of nazi propoganda and ideology, it wasn’t a coincidental love for fascism, genocide, architecture. It was about leaving indellible marks, creating that ‘cultural’ aspect of a thousand year reich.
I think a better thing would a replacement memorial honouring the individuals who died in WW1, and this monument be moved to a location where it can be treated as a piece of history, have it’s context explained, discuss how the nazis plans to build monuments like this in Switzerland was not to honour their dead, but impress nazi ideology here. Not neccesarily put it miles away or in a specific museum, but just away from the general graves and memorials where I think it’s innappropriate to be placing history lesons.
I think it is wrong to display nazi propanga uncritically, and that it’s wrong that those soldiers should be memorialised by a monument built to exploit their deaths, not honour them.
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Nothing a few hours of jackhammering can’t fix.
Davos Photo? The conspiracy theorists are going to have field day with this.
They call it a monument but also a mausoleum. The fact that it hasn’t been discovered until now makes it seem that it’s not a big deal. Time, weather and natural entropy will deal with it.
This monument is a memorial to german dead soldiers during WW1. Doesn’t matter the side they were on, and WW1 thinking was fairly different from today anyway. I don’t see why that’s a big deal, it’s just history and should not be forgotten.
I don’t see why it’s in switzerland though? Anyone knows more?
Nazi didn’t exist in WW1. Nazi’s not even the proper name for them. NSDAP is the proper name. And initially was just DAP.
They only began a thing when Hitler “stole” the National German Worker’s Party (NSDAP), that INITIALLY was a left party, and that he made far-right very quickly by killing anyone who was leaning left or had other ideals that didn’t match Völkisch ideas.
And initially this party existed right after WW1 to counter communism by using the Völkisch movement. And exploited it up until its end, at the end of WW2.
And the worst part of all of this, is that we’re still very vulnerable to such trains of thoughts today.
Hitler’s youth. That was pretty much what made WW2 possible. And if we look at today’s world, any nation with high levels censorship can create such monster again.
hmmm… Maybe this’ll be too nuanced for reddit, but here goes…
On one hand, as far as I can tell it has no explicit Nazi iconography and is just in the general style they favoured (which to be fair, so is most of Bavaria, yet predates the nazis), and it’s a memorial to WW1 dead, which on it’s own are not bad things needing action…
*However*, it wasn’t built just as a monument to the dead, and it’s naive to think that this is the case, it was built to communicate nazi ideals. The continual construction of huge stateus. memorials, buildings etc was a key part of nazi propoganda and ideology, it wasn’t a coincidental love for fascism, genocide, architecture. It was about leaving indellible marks, creating that ‘cultural’ aspect of a thousand year reich.
I think a better thing would a replacement memorial honouring the individuals who died in WW1, and this monument be moved to a location where it can be treated as a piece of history, have it’s context explained, discuss how the nazis plans to build monuments like this in Switzerland was not to honour their dead, but impress nazi ideology here. Not neccesarily put it miles away or in a specific museum, but just away from the general graves and memorials where I think it’s innappropriate to be placing history lesons.
I think it is wrong to display nazi propanga uncritically, and that it’s wrong that those soldiers should be memorialised by a monument built to exploit their deaths, not honour them.