The Weekend Intelligence: Detoxified

How do you detoxify a Nazi monument? Do you tear it down and start over, or memorialise it and acknowledge past sins?


Vendeline von Bredow (mailto:vendelinevonbredow@economist.com) visits the Die Das academy in Saaleck, a place where west (Germany) meets east, past meets present, and history is contested.


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