Restoring Nazi ruins: Nuremberg opts to preserve relics of dark past

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It was infamous as the site of the vast marching grounds and torch-lit parades of Adolf Hitler's Nazi party, but now, many of the vast structures built by the Nazis at Nuremberg are crumbling. Following decades of debate, the city of Nuremberg has decided to preserve the buildings, a vast conservation effort set to cost 85 million euros.
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[@gw7120]

Some may be upset by this , but its history , cant change it

[@TheLegacy222]

If you erase history, history will be forgotten

[@Gvlant1]

@@TheLegacy222if you erase history, it could repeat itself

[@TheLegacy222]

@@Gvlant1 it will

[@mattrandell575]

@@TheLegacy222just like the Ottoman Empire history in Europe it is never talked about and now look it’s repeating it self again

[@Clyde.artwork]

Finally some sense!

[@Von45Rose]

the past must not be forgotten but remembered and used as tools so that mistakes will not be repeated.

[@lucasgrey9794]

Mistakes? You would be speaking Russian in a GULAG eating human flesh to survive right now if it wasn't for "ze eevil natzees". lol.

[@praga2967]

Говорит снабженец украинских нацистов)

[@Hello_there_obi]

I think it's important to preserve history and show a hollistic view of it so we get all sides of the story and hence learn more effectively from the mistakes. How can we learn from history if it has all been wiped away?
Stalins house is preserved. And he was arguably much worse than Hitler. Yet it should be preserved. As should many soviet buildings. Everyone has become too fevered and made the nazis the ultimate evil. There were others too.

[@michealschmidt908]

Albert Speer was a great architect who believed in the law of ruins when a building gets creepers and green algae on it to make it look like classic Rome or Greece some buildings he designed look like this

[@paulweeldreyer7457]

I think it's important to keep these historical places.

[@davidbaker1363]

History is not here for us to like or dislike. It is for us to learn from it. If it offends us, even better; because we are less likely to repeat it. History is not ours to change or destroy. Erasing truth for the sake of someone's offense is the greater offense that REQUIRES the lesser.

[@svy99n]

All History has a place, Good or Bad. We have a Duty to remember and Learn. If we tear it down we are also erasing for future generations. If we destroy our History just because we find it inconvenient or embarrassing then what do we leave for them? Will we allow them to live in ignorance and possibly repeat this.

[@richardbroner9852]

Buildings are not Nazis. Preserve the architecture. You can blow it up and lay down a mall, but it will always be the location.

[@tclem14]

History must he remembered, also not all people in the Nazi party were racists or evil. Alot of them simply wanted to make alot of money.

[@user-wr8gz7bn5o]

I guess opting out money to racism sounds noble... Meh

[@lucasgrey9794]

Albert Speer was a HIPPY compared to 1950s American leaders.

[@lucasgrey9794]

@@user-wr8gz7bn5o You realize America, Britain and Soviet Union until the 1960s were MORE RACIST than NS Germany ever was. lol.

[@kevinmccarthy4794]

I think crumbling ruins have more poignancy. The ruining Colosseum in Rome gives you a sense of time passing and history.

[@dragon8me2]

Not to mention it's a great image of symbolism, considering the nazi party lost.... Restoring it now, kinda gives credit to the idea the Nazi Party is alive.

[@nelsonmurilo5067]

@@dragon8me2 o

[@trashcantacos]

@@dragon8me2 not at all, if we let it sit then it will crumble. the reason for keeping them up is so people don’t deny the past, so that atrocities like the ones committed by this society never happen again.

[@Phyiogambit]

remember the past or you will repeat it...

[@lucasgrey9794]

America literally WIPED OUT the Native Americans and you believe their version of German history? lol.

[@catholic3dod790]

​@@lucasgrey9794
It was the Protestantism.

[@lucasgrey9794]

@@catholic3dod790 No. It was about economics and power.

[@PotterPossum1989]

Good. As someone who would have been killed in the t4 pogrom, historical preservation is key.

[@belleringr6377]

Beau

[@praga2967]

Снова германия посылает танки на Россию по указке США)

[@catholic3dod790]

Respect Germany!

[@malih7777]

Is this serious!?

[@casparurban8730]

yes it is. (I understand German)

[@bellabacci8056]

They should restore it as a monument just like the Roma empire

[@Ometecuhtli]

Restoration as a history lesson, there's no other way to it.