Americans build memorials to crimes we didn't even commit, while some want to brush their past under the rug.
Berlin has innumerable official monuments and reminders to communicate the horror of the holocaust, including a very haunting memorial just opened one block from the Brandenburg Gate. The Germans are absolutely committed never to forget what can happen when a civilized society surrenders itself to racial hatred, and they are absolutely not sweeping their history under a rug.
It is not Checkpoint Charlie nor any official memorial
that is going, its a private installation of crosses and
graves.
Imagine Smarty Greedo leasing property 2 blocks away from
ground zero, erecting 3.000 crosses and putting up a sign
that reads "All you ever wanted to know about 9/11" because
the city council was too slow and had no concept.
Dont think the mayor would like that one a bit.