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Okay so answer me this felllow racists - There is still no memorial to our fallen soldiers in Korea, the World War II memorial was completely funded by private donations and the US Govt fought it's creation for 60 years, there's nothing about slavery or the genocide of the Indians or anything about Indians at all, nothing about the Irish, Italian or German Immigrants, hell not even anything about the Chinese Coolies that built the railroads out west but we've got a God Damned fucking National Holocaust Museum built on OUR national mall that was built under Clinton. Even if the fucking holocaust happened at all (which I highly doubt the numbers), even IF it did happen, it happened in Europe. Why did we as American Taxpayers that our Fathers and Grandfathers fought to free the kikes, have to pay to build one of their fucking temples to their self-pity on our soil that is supposed to be for OUR National History?

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is a national institution situated in a prominent location adjacent to The National Mall in Washington, D.C. (in between 14th and 15th streets SW); however, it is not a constituent institution of the Smithsonian Institution. The museum is dedicated to documenting, studying, and interpreting the history of the Holocaust. It also serves as the United States' official memorial to the millions of European Jews and others killed during the Holocaust under directives of Nazi Germany. While the United States government provided some funding for both the building and continued operations of the museum, a majority of the funding comes from private sources (this is a fucking lie, it was all taxpayer money), Jewish movie director Steven Spielberg being amongst the most notable donors. The street that the museum is located on is named Raoul Wallenberg Place, after the Swedish diplomat who is believed to have saved 100,000 Jews in Hungary during the Second World War. The museum building sits on land that previously belonged to the United States Department of Agriculture. Two of the three annex buildings that sat on this property were demolished to build a museum whose design would be wholly about the Holocaust.

The US Congress authorized the creation of the museum in 1980, based on the 1979 report of the President's Commission on the Holocaust, established by Jimmy Carter. The museum was charged with maintaining a Committee on Conscience, to monitor and issue an " 'institutional scream' to alert the conscience of the world and spark public outcry" at the earliest signs of genocidal intent.

The building was designed by James Ingo Freed, of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners. Additionally, Maurice N Finegold, FAIA, of Finegold Alexander + Associates Inc, was a consulting architect on the project. Though the building on the outside is rather monumental with clean lines, in keeping with the large governmental buildings in the immediate context, the interior was meant to provoke more intimate and visceral responses.

The facilities house a number of exhibitions, artworks, publications, and artifacts relating to the Holocaust. The museum collects and preserves material evidence, distributes educational materials, and produces public programming. The Holocaust Museum also holds annual Holocaust commemorations and remembrances.


 
Posted : 28/01/2008 9:26 pm
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