The Holocaust

Since Europe is such a large but connected landmass, and the Germans possessed enough force to gradually spread throughout it, Germany was able to maintain control over the killings in its land without having to worry about enemies attacking from the sides. As illustrated by the World War II overview map, after Germany began to swallow up surrounding countries, it quickly moved into Poland, intimidated other surrounding countries into alliance, and quickly invaded France. Essentially, Germany had completely secured the entire continent, except for Britain which was an isolated island. With such a broad expanse of land and railroad systems running throughout it, Germany eliminated potential boundaries that come with controlling a continent in addition to making it relatively impenetrable from the outside. This also made it extremely difficult for anyone to immigrate from Germany in order to escape the Nazis' persecution. As shown by the voyage of St. Louis, people wanting to escape had to go to extreme measures and travel overseas to another country who would accept them. Even then, they were not accepted and forced back to Europe, where the Nazi party was rapidly gaining more power.

The Holocaust Museum displays a history of the Holocaust and memorializes it by retelling the horrors of the event. The museum clearly holds the view that genocide should never happen again like the Holocaust, which is a completely valid viewpoint given the its severity. However, the bias does show, from the negative light that the subject is constantly shown in to the inflation of less significant events - the Voyage of St. Louis made the consequences seem much more severe than reality - to the details that are presented - gloomy images and death counts. Again, this is the consensus that the general public has come to, but the museum does assume that people believe that the Holocaust is a touchy issue that we all deeply regret. The museum intends people to feel this regret by painting this negative picture of the Holocaust. At some rate, it is very difficult not to have this bias, but it doesn't interfere with the basic way the Holocaust is perceived or the facts that are taught. I believe that it does qualify as a monument because it commits the Holocaust to public memory as an atrocious crime against humanity, with an intended bias, regardless of the form that it's in.