a blank spot of local conglomerate rock, where the eagle had been.
Earlier this year a book was published, "Im Schatten der Mozartkugel", something like a tour guide to locations of Salzburg Nazi past, with a web site to go with it, imschatten.org. And there, one of the chapters is on the building of motorways during the Nazi period, with a striking photograph of this very site. So somebody had reacted.
Yes, one more is gone.
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Hopefully not.
I think, that’s a shame…
Everybody, all over the world is talking about history.
Our history.
They are talking about events, so bad and horrible, that it should be remembered.
Remember the history.
Remember the events.
Remember the Nazi regime in Europe.
Things that no one should ever forget.
That’s the only way, to avoid giant crimes like this in the future of mankind.
Slowly, very slowly, now, many years later, the witnesses are dying.
In a view years, no one that survived that time, can talk about it.
The eagles get removed. Slowly.
The voices get noiseless. Slowly
Unseen = unspoken.
It’s a shame…
Greetings,
Mister EggZ
Dear Mister EggZ, yes, the witnesses and survivors are dying; some of the eagles are disappearing ... but people like you and myself are remembering and speaking out, or at least blogging and posting.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I hold for a truth: even those who try to stop remembering and discussion ('there should be an end to all that restitution business after so many years'), even those people keep memory alive, despite their own intentions.
I don't know where you live; in Salzburg and other places an artist from Germany, Günther Demnig is setting "Stolpersteine" on sidewalks, bricks with brass plaques that carry the names and life data of residents of the respective houses; human beings that were deported from those houses and mostly died in concentration camps or institutions for the 'mentally ill'. See http://www.stolpersteine-salzburg.at/. Thanks for remembering & speaking out!