When Museums Are Made To Be Ideological: Remember Germany

Museums were repurposed to emphasize heroic and nationalist themes. Military museums glorified past victories while erasing defeats. Archives were cleansed of inconvenient truths: Jewish soldiers’ service in World War I was omitted from military histories. “Un-German” books by Freud, Marx, Einstein, and others were burned in 1933. – Berkshire Eagle

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