The Topography of Terror Museum
WARNING... GRAPHIC CONTENT. These photos of were taken at Berlin's Topography of Terror museum.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topography_of_Terror
"Our aim is to show the topography of how the Nazi-initiated terror was implemented and how both the Nazi party and state institutions merged together," said the director of the Topography of Terror museum, Andreas Nachama, a rabbi and historian. "It holds lessons about the workings of other dictatorships as well... The Pinochet dictatorship in Chile or the military junta in Argentina."
The monument is yet another piece in the puzzle of Germany's attempts to come to terms with its Nazi past and reinforces its reputation as a country which like no other has painstakingly documented its misdeeds.
www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/06/topography-terror-n...
The caption from this picture:
"Despite numerous accounts... recalling the hectic quality of the decisions and events that followed January 30, 1933, the way in which Hitler's government, having been handed the reins of power, pursued the conquest, safeguarding and stabilization of power in close collaboration with Party formations, the Reichswehr, the bureaucracy and an acclamatory public, remains a breathtakingly dramatic process. In light of the first phase of this consolidation of power up to early August 1934, how can one possibly doubt that it bore all the marks of a totalitarian revolution, and that by its end Hitler had acquired a genuine 'position of omnipotence' as a symbolic figure of charismatic authority?"
The Topography of Terror Museum
WARNING... GRAPHIC CONTENT. These photos of were taken at Berlin's Topography of Terror museum.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topography_of_Terror
"Our aim is to show the topography of how the Nazi-initiated terror was implemented and how both the Nazi party and state institutions merged together," said the director of the Topography of Terror museum, Andreas Nachama, a rabbi and historian. "It holds lessons about the workings of other dictatorships as well... The Pinochet dictatorship in Chile or the military junta in Argentina."
The monument is yet another piece in the puzzle of Germany's attempts to come to terms with its Nazi past and reinforces its reputation as a country which like no other has painstakingly documented its misdeeds.
www.theguardian.com/world/2010/may/06/topography-terror-n...
The caption from this picture:
"Despite numerous accounts... recalling the hectic quality of the decisions and events that followed January 30, 1933, the way in which Hitler's government, having been handed the reins of power, pursued the conquest, safeguarding and stabilization of power in close collaboration with Party formations, the Reichswehr, the bureaucracy and an acclamatory public, remains a breathtakingly dramatic process. In light of the first phase of this consolidation of power up to early August 1934, how can one possibly doubt that it bore all the marks of a totalitarian revolution, and that by its end Hitler had acquired a genuine 'position of omnipotence' as a symbolic figure of charismatic authority?"