The View Of Charlottesville, From Berlin
An American in Germany writes about the very different way that nation preserves and remembers the shameful parts of its history.
To walk around Berlin is to constantly, inevitably, trip over history.
Almost literally, in the case of the Stolpersteine, or "stumbling stones," embedded in the sidewalks outside homes where victims of the Holocaust once lived.
Germany's culture of "remembrance" around the Nazi years and the Holocaust is a well-documented and essential part of the nation's character. Though occasionally political parties
