Digital reconstruction of Warsaw after the 1944 uprising

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Originally Posted by Penguin

So who is the authority to tell how things should be remembered?

A good question. The cynical answer is: "the guy with the money." Unfortunate reality of memory organisations.

Thinking about events from history does also not mean to have no awareness of today's atrocities.

I would hope so. But the danger in history is getting too fixated to it. And another is the perspective getting smaller and smaller, while the illusion of knowing a lot gets bigger and bigger. Suddenly it's not history anymore: it's World War 2. Then it's not World War 2 anymore: it's one single event. And while I, as an aspiring historian, am all for studying one thing thorougly instead of being a walking Wikipedia, I'm still afraid it can in some cases create tunnel vision. I'm hardly immune to it myself.