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Originally Posted by DiracSpike
There are lots, that's true. And as other people have correctly pointed out many of them were commissioned in the 1925-1930 perios which was the rebirth of the modern Klan so a decent case can be made that they have both little historical significance and pretty disgusting racist intent.
But the Hitler comparison is weak because Robert E Lee wasn't Hitler. I'd say a better comparison, which someone else pointed out, is Rommel. There's also probably no Rommel statues in Germany but it's less of a slam dunk case. In people's fervor to attack everything Confederacy related in the coming weeks I'd expect some attacks on legitimate monuments to the soldiers who died, many of whom were conscripted to fight even though they didn't own slaves. Those sites should be protected, as the memorials and monuments to regular German soldiers in WW2 are.
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No Robert E Lee was not hitler, I think a better example to stick with the German theme would be Heinrich Himmler, would you argue for a statue of him to be kept? Any memorial site for troops in Germany are very clear in their message that they served their country valiantly, but that the what they were fighting for was wrong.