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Five paintings allegedly by Adolf Hitler to be auctioned in Nuremberg
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Paint over them scenes of his true legacy. Poignant reminders that we should never allow his vision to come to pass again.
That's why it's called The Banality of Evil
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1023716-eichmann-in-jerusalem-a-report-on-the-banality-of-evil
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Probably best to just put it in a museum.
Probably best to just put it in a museum.
The entire city of Rome is basically a monument to slavery and brutal conquerors. We're not razing that to the ground. Or all the monuments to colonial conquest in London. Agree with you completely
Only acceptable thing. I'd be a-ok with archiving images of them and burning them tho.
She wouldn't dare take Hitler's stuff out of Germany, that's globalism.
This is the same argument for keeping up Confederate statues. If art is shit just get rid of it, the world isn't any lesser.
This is a auction, the people that win it can do whatever the fuck they want with it. If they want to burn the fucking thing and keep the ashes in a jar, that's fine.
They belong in a museum. Make people see that not a monster or some sort of cartoony villain people like to conjure up in their mind is responsible for these atrocities but a mere human being. It is even more important these days now that the generation who survived the regime to talk about it won't be here for long anymore.
A lot of Assyrian art is crude, we don't just pummel it to dust like the Islamic State with a sledgehammer. The fuck is this reasoning?
Of course the owner of something can do whatever they want with it. That goes without saying.
What I'm saying is that in my opinion, people should not do that. Regardless of what the item is. It should be preserved.
That's a trash argument imo. You can keep a statue preserved without having it on display.
That also has a lot more historic value than some random drawing made by a mass murderer with no artistic talent.
It's sort of like the opposite of Bob Ross having been a drill sargeant before he did the thing that made him famous
You can, but there's no reason to. It's not worth preserving.
I really don't feel strongly about what happens to these paintings, but I will point out that the difference between Hitler and Atilla is that you don't really have Neo-Huns running around talking about Hun Genocide from all the Italian immigration and intermarrying. Or receiving a national profile talking about how they don't want to burn and pillage Rome, oh my heavens no, they just want to implement some Urban Renewal. Like turning it into a park, and oh! You know what would just make the perfect fertilizer for all the plants in our new park? Ashes...
A mass murderer who happens to be one of the biggest world changing individuals in history.
Personally I share that opinion in that particular case, but the bottom line is that you're ok with/advocating for the destruction of a piece of history which I am 100% against regardless of the meaning/context. It is history whether we love it or despise it. So, opinions I guess.
Should we put his toe nail clippings in a museum too? He's not famous because of his amateur art.
It's not a piece of history, it's something made by a historic person with no value of its own.
but dont you understand those nail clippings remind us all that hes not just a monster hes a human molded by circumstance just like us
That's what I was thinking. It's perhaps the most prominent symbol of hate their is woven into a piece of furniture that should be screaming "lazy Sunday". But weaving horrific racism into the unassuming and everyday might also be a more honest depiction of hatred than we're used to seeing.
Are we talking about a confederate statue still? Regardless, pretty much anything could be considered a piece of history, and I'm sure someone would value it. A piece of toilet paper in a thousand years might be of historical value.
I constantly bring this up at every party. I abhor the man, but you gotta hand it to him-- at the end of the day he was a human. If we don't keep these toe nail clippings around, history may repeat itself.
While I don't think it should be enshrined and don't care too much if the physical object is destroyed if it's recorded digitally, but I do think it's worth remembering that the most horrific racist is still human. A lot of the seemingly unassuming humans around us are racists, and a lot of the humans around us want us to see racists to be black-souled monsters because monsters don't really exist.
Yes, but not one 50 years from now. Just because anything can be historic doesn't mean it should be. The Confederate statues have no historic value, these paintings have no historic value. General Lee and Hitler's toilet paper have no historic value. Just get rid of it, no museum would want it.
Are you saying if we found a painting by Alexander The Great or Ghengis Khan they wouldn't go into a museum?