All the stuff in the USA named after Von Braun doesn’t surprise me.
Really interesting to see all the stuff named after Philippe Pétain in the USA. Looks like it was banned after him in the 1920s-1930s due to his role for France/allies in WWI. Then he became a Nazi collaborator later.
Good reminder of why you shouldn’t name things after people who are still alive.
“Gather round while I sing you of Werner Von Braun A man whose allegiance was ruled by expedience Call him a Nazi He won’t even frown ‘Nazi-Schmazi’ says Werner Von Braun.”
I knew what and where my towns one was before I opened the article… And I was right.
I’m not queer, I’m “Jew and other”
I have a thought, what if we idealized ideas, and buried the people who said them? I mean, everyone knows that Americans are temporarily embarrassed millionaires, but who cares who said it? Lincoln is attributed the quote, but apparently never said, “You can fool some of the people all of the time…”, who cares? The idea is solid, who said it is irrelevant.
everyone knows that Americans are temporarily embarrassed millionaires
someone needs to tell my bank this because I had no clue I was a millionaire.
Henri Philippe Pétain and Pierre Laval, the head and prime minister of France’s collaborationist Vichy government which hunted down and deported 67,000 Jews to the concentration camps. In addition to his Broadway plaque, Pétain is honored with 11 streets in the U.S… Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych, who have busts in upstate New York and Wisconsin. Bandera headed a faction of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, which allied itself with the Nazis and whose members eagerly participated in the Holocaust. Shukhevych, another Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists figure, was a leader in a Third Reich auxiliary battalion that carried out lethal antisemitic operations in service of the Nazis. Later, Shukhevych commanded the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which massacred thousands of Jews and 70,000 to 100,000 Polish civilians. There are additional Ukrainian nationalist busts in New York and Ohio. Andrey Vlasov, the Soviet general who went over to the Nazis and raised an army of over 100,000 men for the Third Reich, has a memorial just outside New York. Dragoljub Mihailović, who led the Serbian Chetnik paramilitary that fought with Nazi Germany and carried out ethnic cleansing of Bosnian Muslims, has statues in Cleveland, Milwaukee and two Chicago suburbs. Chicago also has a memorial to Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas, who commanded a unit of the Lithuanian Activist Front, a Nazi-allied organization whose members slaughtered Jews across Lithuania in the summer of 1941… You’ll see it in Viktor Orban’s Hungary, where far-right figures use elaborate ceremonies anchored to WWII anniversaries to draw neo-Nazis across Europe; Ukraine, where the rehabilitators of Bandera work to turn the country into a hub of transnational white supremacy; Croatia, where men carrying WWII fascist symbols marched in support of Donald Trump; and France, where the far-right Marine LePen rallies supporters by insisting that France has no responsibility for the Holocaust. You’ll see it in a dozen other nations as well…
I have a hard time believing there’s only one in Russia.
I was wondering who it was.
Pyotr Krasnov, historian, antisemite and Nazi collaborator. Krasnov was a commander of the Don Cossacks who fought against the Communists during the Russian Civil War
Turns out commies really don’t like Nazis so it’s not surprising at all. Especially considering the geopolitical situation around that time. (Of course, Russia is absolutely not Communist now…)
I’m more surprised how few are shown in Argentina…
Looking into the specific monument, it appears to be in someone’s front garden, and there’s been legal attempts to have it removed.
Russia really doesn’t like Nazis, after what they did to the USSR. Rehabilitation of nazisism and holocaust denial are illegal there.
Odd because the Russian right has openly embraced neo Nazis. Russian soldiers are doing Nazi salutes or having Nazi tattoos. Nazi gangs attack people up in the cities. Etc
Yeah but a lot has changed since 1991. Wagner was named after Hitler’s favorite composer, and I don’t think that was a mistake. I suppose outright putting up a statue of a Nazi is still taboo there though.
