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Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Berlin Wall Memorial To Be Razed

See no evil, hear no evil.

Apparently that is the motto of the Leftist German government, which has no intention of stopping the bulldozing of the Berlin Wall Memorial on July 4, when the lease expires.

Alexandra Hildebrandt, director of the private Checkpoint Charlie Museum, said a demolition crew has been scheduled to arrive at the site of Checkpoint Charlie at 4 a.m. next Monday to remove the memorial, made up of 1,067 crosses representing people killed trying to escape from East Berlin.

This is a dumb idea, not only from a historical perspective, but also from a business perspective. There is a reason that tourists visit the museum - they want to know about the evils of Soviet communism and the museum doesn't lie.

Those who choose not to remember history...