Removing Confederate Generals portraits?

[Eva Elisabeth]

(12-21-2013 08:25 PM)Kathleen Wrote:  The article didn't provide all of the information and was incorrect.

Hi Kathleen, and thanks! See what the media can do...

As for political correctness - consequence and reason or common sense often don't go along well. We have been undergoing a process of whitewashing history for some years now regarding any celebrity who (even if only accidentally and unwillingly) ever somehow came in touch with Hitler. At present there's a big issue to re-name two nationwide quite famous constructions named after Hindenburg. One is a railway causeway joining the prestigious island of Sylt (Germany's "Martha's Vineyard") to the mainland. It was opened in 1927 and named after the second German President. For all those years neither member of any ethnic group has ever had an issue with these namings, suddenly they are questionable. So far so good, but knowing German thoroughness and consequence I wonder when the first demands will occur e.g. to forbid Wagner's music since he was an ardent and very active anti-Semite.
       
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