How Germany Remembers the Holocaust
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The Danger of Silence
Caroline Modoresi-Tirani: There was a very intentional proactive attempt to push aside the story of child slavery and what the Civil War was fought over. In Germany there was its own version of silence after the end of the war, it took generations before these monuments would be built. They began to talk about how slavery wasn't central to the Civil War or even that bad. It was a benign or even civilizing institution.
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