Key difference is that Germans can read.
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As if there was a tactic agreement to elide that history for the sake of unity at the expense of a minority.
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Almost like statues mythologize instead of educate.
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They made a conscious decision to have the discussion about their past. We run from ours.
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There was homegrown effort, which came a lot later. Taking down statues and eradicating memorabilia was an Allied matter, though.
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Same problem as in US. We did not have real discussions and debates about the crime of apartheid after 1994. We put loose lid on boiling pot
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Part of that may be because the Nazi era is closer in time. Part of it is because Nazism was firmly suppressed, unlike Jim Crow policies.
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Many of those confederate statues were erected in the mid 20th century
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In Mexico we don't have statues of general Houston either.
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