Guest Blog Post: The Architecture of Belief

eisenman is too interested in the ontology of architecture and should probably look less towards a caretsian notion of space and more towards the latent spiritualism of building and inhabiting, as alexander pincus does.

We suffered a great deal during the Holocaust. As chosen people of god, we should not have been killed by the Nazis.

Now, the world owes the Jews the proper respect and be subservient to our needs.

Jews are great!

We did not kill Jesus, but are disgusted by Christians who think that he was the son of god.

Actually, most of us think that Jesus is just a fictional character.

Rabbi Goldstein--- NYC

Nice article. I've been to the memorial, and you covered it perfectly. It is a solemn place, but also part of cosmopolitan Berlin, and you can't help but feel awe at the way this somewhat unorthodox design hits a person.

And for everybody else...the hate I see in here is beyond disgusting. Your comments belong on a distant blog no one can see, not on the Washington Post.

Now if the white settlers and the missionaries,and the jewish people who own manhattan and newyork would build a memorial to the 12,000,000 aboriginal people slaughterd in the americas,but thats right we are unclean and deserved what we got.Its your world we just live in it.We have more holocaust museums in america then the ones dealing with the murder of the unclean "indian",religion has a sick history.

Now if the white settlers and the missionaries,and the jewish people who own manhattan and newyork would build a memorial to the 12,000,000 aboriginal people slaughterd in the americas,but thats right we are unclean and deserved what we got.Its your world we just live in it.We have more holocaust museums in america then the ones dealing with the murder of the unclean "indian",religion has a sick history.

"Starting in 1942, the Jews began circulating rumors that they were all being killed. These rumors filtered through various news agencies, from various sources.

By 1945, the Jews had forged tens of thousands of Nazi documents, all "proving" that the Nazis had committed mass murder. The Jews invented the whole thing in a whirlwind effort. They invented the places where the gassings took place. They researched and invented the techniques that were used. They forged photographs and wove them into the documentary record.

Their Jewish chemists figured out which perfectly ordinary buildings would be palmed off as gas chambers. They forged reports of how well the gassing operations were going. They forged reports to Hitler saying that the Eastern territories were free of Jews."
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Is that so? Then how do you explain all of the dead bodies buried in mass graves all over the Nazi-occupied territories? Did Jews invent those bodies, too? Or the stench of burning human flesh that wafted over the areas around the death camps and was reported by non-Jews living in those areas? How do you explain the camera footage from American and Russian soldiers that liberated the camps, showing dead and dying people in large numbers? Where the soldiers all conspiring Jews? You are a bigoted idiot!

"Now if the white settlers and the missionaries,and the jewish people who own manhattan and newyork would build a memorial to the 12,000,000 aboriginal people slaughterd in the americas,but thats right we are unclean and deserved what we got.Its your world we just live in it.We have more holocaust museums in america then the ones dealing with the murder of the unclean "indian",religion has a sick history."
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Only a bigot would deny a memorial to one tragedy because another tragedy isn't recognized with a memorial. Jews own Manhattan? Guess again, genius! It always amazes me that bigoted people so often complain about the bigotry of others without the humilty to look at their own hypocrisy.

"Now if the white settlers and the missionaries,and the jewish people who own manhattan and newyork would build a memorial to the 12,000,000 aboriginal people slaughterd in the americas,but thats right we are unclean and deserved what we got.Its your world we just live in it.We have more holocaust museums in america then the ones dealing with the murder of the unclean "indian",religion has a sick history."
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Let's see if I understand your reasoning: because the genocide of Native Americans hasn't been recognized with a memorial, it follows that Judaism is evil, because memorials to the Jewish Holocaust exist? And Jews own Manhattan?! That is the "reasoning" of a bigot-hypocrite.

Geronimo has a point
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum opened about ten years before the National Museum of the American Indian. The holocaust a tragic significant event However it was not an American event it does not belong on the National Mall. There is no public outcry for the a National Killing Fields Museum to commemorate and educate about the Khmer Rouge. The American Indian History IS American culture you cannot split them.

"Geronimo has a point
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum opened about ten years before the National Museum of the American Indian. The holocaust a tragic significant event However it was not an American event it does not belong on the National Mall. There is no public outcry for the a National Killing Fields Museum to commemorate and educate about the Khmer Rouge. The American Indian History IS American culture you cannot split them."
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No, he doesn't have a point. The Holocaust Museum was funded entirely privately. And, you are incorrect - it is not located on the Mall. Have you ever been there? The Museum of the American Indian is not only on the Mall, it is close to the Capitol.

Actually the Holocaust was an American event in that Rome's American Fifth Column, emboldened, having not been extirpated after their murders of a number of leaders and presidents - and the successful lynching of Leo Frank, financed the rise of Nazism and Hitler through the author of "I Paid Hitler," papal baron, Fritz "The Rockefeller of Germany" Thyssen. He got that nickname because Germany knew the money was from the Vatican's correspondent banker and Bush overlords the Rockefellers...taking the money from Rome's collection plates on Monday mornings and investing it in Rome's European catspaw Adolph Hitler.

Google: "Prescott Thyssen Auschwitz" if you care to know how it is only the Roman Catholics on the Supreme Court voted to unconstitutionally appoint a homosexual draft-dodger as POTUS...whose father "couldn't recall" his whereabouts upon hearing of John Kennedy's assassination.

But above all read "A Moral Reckoning," by Goldhagen to know Rome's culpability for the Holocaust.

www.theamericanfundament.blogspot.com

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People keep making Hitler and Holocaust out to be something monstrously aberrant. So when America succumbs to hyper-nationalism, invades a country to defend ourselves against invisible threats, and then begins opening detainee camps there, no one can see the similarities. Flag pins are kind of like Swastikas -- public leaders like presidential candidates are asked about their patriotism if they do not wear one. Of course, the biggest mistake would be to blame one person -- Hitler or Bush -- for what we as a country either did or permitted to be done in our name.

Anyway, none of that. How could such monstrous evil have happened in 20th century Europe? Never again. Never again.