Then explain why the West German government was just too happy to tear down the completely undamaged Karlstadt department store in West Berlin after the war?
There was nothing wrong with it, and the management protested to no avail because they liked the design of the building.
Perhaps only because the architect was Albert Speer?
Ciao Emperor,
I am not familiar with the case but what is done in right after a war, in the heat of passion is one thing and what is done 150 or 1500 years later, when, despite all the bickering of the armchair generals, the matters have been amply transcended is quite another. There are neighborhoods full of Fascist style architecture in Rome and in a way, though not my favorite style, it’s perfectly fine (and most of it is a sight better than a lot of the socialist-communist stuff bult later). IMHO it would be a damned shamed to knock them down over politics, trying to hide every single trace of a twenty year period that at least in the beginning, had everyone enthralled. Better the visual reminders. Real victories, with all the healing, forgetting and forgiving are a matter of transcending, more than eradicating.
I’m not really all that aware of the living passions at play on this issue, but I do belive that heritage is not just about being politically or even morally right and wrong. I don’t think that only the politically and morally right signs of the past must be allowed to survive. And as we say here, even the cleanest dog has the mange.
Which is about as dumb a reason as can be dremed up to tear ddown a building. But then the present German government hasn’t yet been shown to be overburdened with geniuses.