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They can't. Regardless, Hitler has no place, in name, symbol, or image, in a cemetary for US veterans. You might as do it in a Jewish Graveyard. We are under no obligation to honor a genocidal tyrant.
Catholicism does not own a monopoly in the Cross. The Nazi Swastika is a very specific thing, and doesn't tend to look overly like other swastikas. Amd, don't forget, I have singled out der Fuehrer being mentioned. I don't believe I have specifically singled out the swastika.
So you don't see a problem with government officials only allowing specific religions (their own, of course) while disallowing displays from other religions. You don't see this as promotional or preferential treatment?
The nastier side of history deserves to be preserved IMO.
Wow, as I had not seen that picture before! Thanks.
Again, this has nothing to do with "establishment". Of course all religions should be allowed. By excluding all religions, only the atheists get what they want. Why shouldn't religious people get what they want?
Not only has this nothing to do with establishment, it has nothing to do with religion either. A swastika is not a religious symbol.
We know that without the reference. The world at large still wont let Germany live it down. An enemy to humanity deserves no such commemoration. Museums and history books are the appropriate places for these annals of history.
History is more alive if it's all around us.
We don't need Confederate flags and Civil War memorials to remember it. There is no need for Hitler to have his name and cause honored in such a way. Their death for their Fuehrer und Vaterland, it has no place next to those who were killed fighting their Fuehrer and delusional Reich.
Hmmm....might be a good idea to destroy all those Buddha statues.
Were we at war with a Buddhist regime who was slaughtering and butchering with impunity for a great deal of time by keeping their genocide hidden from the world?
For what?
After nearly 80 years those stone have become a museum. If the signs would have been removed 70 years ago, it would have been OK.
That one really is a different discussion because it is legit that a TON of those did go up during Civil Rights movements. And, no, we don't need to use public space to commemorate a time of a very deep national divide. Robert E. Lee didn't even want it, nor himself as a statue.
That's what the inscription is. The symbol is adequate. An Iron Cross with a Swastika in the center, it will be generations before we fail to instantly recognize that. The inscription is unnecessary, and inappropriate for a US veterans cemetery as it does commemorate Hitler with an unnecessary extra step.
I have heard of ignorant Westerners going to Asia and getting all offended when they see the swastikas on temples, thinking that Buddhists are Nazis. Sometimes items from Asia with swastikas on them in end up in the West for sale and causes an uproar, and triggers recalls and much apologizing. There's also a controversy in Germanic Heathenry over whether it's appropriate to display sunwheels, even though those are the most sacred symbols in the religion, going back to European pre-history, aside from the hammer.
I agree. As I said, it should have been removed 70 years ago.
People always have their reasons for being offended by something.