Geography. Monuments. Important Stuff.

Because European countries are situated so closely together, it made the annihilation of all Jews a comparatively simple process. All of the countries could be easily connected by railroads, as shown in the map WWII And The Holocaust. This made transportation and invasion very easy. The Germans were inclined to invade whichever countries were closest to them, because they were easy to get to. This meant that countries occupied by Germany and the Soviet Union slowly expanded out like a growing amoebea, and didn't jump around like they might have if they had been island hopping or using boats to reach their next target. Instead of carefully choosing the weakest place to strike, the Germans simply moved forward.

These maps memorialize the Holocaust by showing an obvious bias towards the Jews and other minorities who suffered and lost their lives during this mass genocide. Never once do the maps say something along the lines of, "Well, the Germans really did mean well." The museum assumes that all the visitors want to honor the memory of the victims by silently observing the cruelty of the Nazis and empathizing with their victims. My original reaction is that a website cannot be a monument, because it is not a physical entity. However, I suppose that if its sole purpose is to commemmorate a certain event or person, then it falls under our definition and is indeed a monument. A museum can be a monument, but only if it is a biased museum like the Holocausst Museum. A Museum showing soley concrete data about a certain event with absolutely no opinion is simply informative. A memorial must be honoring not only a certain event, but what that event means to the people.