As always, the ignorant comments about Switzerland *sigh*
No idea why we need such memorial 80 years after the war.
And having it only dedicated to the victims of fascism is pretty unfair to all other victims. Just think about all the countless atrocities done by the communists. Including raping millions of German woman for three years straight.
We should be clean with history: every form of authoritarianism and dictatorship and totalitarianism has brought out the worst in humanity.
All of them are guilty of the worst of the worst crimes. We all should stand against such dehumanising regimes. Pointing out one only allows the others to hide in endless whataboutism and never get confronted with the truth: that they are disgusting too!
I would have guessed the plaque would have read “die düütsche sinds gsii” and it would be errected in the middle of Zürich by some SVP “politician” 🙂
“To our state’s sponsors”
Maybe I am out of touch but this seems so out of place and I’d rather not have this thing built.
Also I always find this hyper fixation on the jewish victims of nazism a bit strange, it seems with every year the millions of Soviet, Polish, Roma, Serbian etc. victims being ignored more and more despite being just as numerous. I just don’t believe that playing into this narrative does any good for future generations as it just leads to the minimization of other suffering.
A bit too late…
If Switzerland is what it claims to be, it should come clean and talk about benefiting from slavery, nazi gold, secrets vaults, Russian assets, dictators and authoritarians living on its lands.
Neutrality isn’t a ethical value, its a shield to protect Swiss interests.
I’m not a big fan of memorials about something bad someone else did. Memorials should be about reflection of your own actions instead. So what I’d rather see is a memorial on the German border about the rejected refugees that later died in a concentration camp maybe.
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As always, the ignorant comments about Switzerland *sigh*
No idea why we need such memorial 80 years after the war.
And having it only dedicated to the victims of fascism is pretty unfair to all other victims. Just think about all the countless atrocities done by the communists. Including raping millions of German woman for three years straight.
We should be clean with history: every form of authoritarianism and dictatorship and totalitarianism has brought out the worst in humanity.
All of them are guilty of the worst of the worst crimes. We all should stand against such dehumanising regimes. Pointing out one only allows the others to hide in endless whataboutism and never get confronted with the truth: that they are disgusting too!
I would have guessed the plaque would have read “die düütsche sinds gsii” and it would be errected in the middle of Zürich by some SVP “politician” 🙂
“To our state’s sponsors”
Maybe I am out of touch but this seems so out of place and I’d rather not have this thing built.
Also I always find this hyper fixation on the jewish victims of nazism a bit strange, it seems with every year the millions of Soviet, Polish, Roma, Serbian etc. victims being ignored more and more despite being just as numerous. I just don’t believe that playing into this narrative does any good for future generations as it just leads to the minimization of other suffering.
A bit too late…
If Switzerland is what it claims to be, it should come clean and talk about benefiting from slavery, nazi gold, secrets vaults, Russian assets, dictators and authoritarians living on its lands.
Neutrality isn’t a ethical value, its a shield to protect Swiss interests.
I’m not a big fan of memorials about something bad someone else did. Memorials should be about reflection of your own actions instead. So what I’d rather see is a memorial on the German border about the rejected refugees that later died in a concentration camp maybe.