Reminder: Kay Ivey's Confederate Icon Protection-Act Remains In Force

 

Propaganda Art?

      From an excellent Slate article comparing Post U.S. Civil War Confederate Memorials and Post WWII Nazi Memorials.

 

Susan Neiman, director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany, and author of Learning From the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil, argues that the U.S. could learn something important from the way Germans have confronted their past. A born-and-raised American Southerner, Neiman notes that Germany has no nostalgic Nazi memorials. “Germany has no monuments that celebrate the Nazi armed forces, however many grandfathers fought or fell for them. … The idea that tourists would visit [Buchenwald] seeking smiling women in dirndls—much as some visit American plantations looking for ladies in hoop skirts—is obscene.”