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hugo7 in reply to @Constable_Savage

A bit like your experience of Auschwitz, I'm surprised that anyone could not find the Berlin memorial sobering.

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branwen in reply to @hugo7

Edit: Had no idea which thread this was in. Sorry guys

Not really justifying it - but I had similar experiences going round WW1 memorials in Belgium and saw much the same thing from younger people, I wonder how much of it might be down to the sheer scale of the thing being memorialised, that makes it impossible to comprehend in any meaningful way. I still find it distasteful but I think I see it more as a society scale problem now (people don't learn about respect / dignity) rather than blaming individuals

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gbj_tester in reply to @branwen

I see it more as a society scale problem now (people don't learn about respect / dignity)

Maybe it's a time scale problem. Is it reasonable to expect children whose great grandparents were born after the Great War to have much of an emotional reaction to the memorials of that conflict?

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