Just a regular marker in Central and Eastern Europe:
I stumbled across this one as I was walking to Europos Parkas from Vilnius, while looking for the geographical center of Europe. But more about that in a separate report, hopefully coming soon.
Whenever someone brings up the argument of Europeans allegedly having a superior culture or history, I have to think about the whole continent being dotted with mass graves from the Baltics to the Balkans.
The Happy Hermit 
Europe has always been a continuing war and continues to be a war torn society to this day. The whole place is over rated.
Overrated compared to what for what purpose?
I personally find most parts of Europe totally underrated, when it comes to natural beauty, the depth of history, the quality of life, and as a destination to travel.
After all, most non-Europeans have no rating at all of 99% of Europe. Heck, even most Europeans will never visit Hiiumaa, Asturia or the Erzgebirge.
A few big cities and the most famous landmarks are overrated, but that’s a global phenomenon.
A friend from Lithuania has pointed me to the “Holocaust Atlas of Lithuania”, a website that marks all the spots of mass killings and provides additional information.
The page for the site depicted above can be found here:
http://www.holocaustatlas.lt/EN/#a_atlas/search//page/1/item/177/
Without becoming too bitter about it, dare I say that the mass graves – especially those marked with a star of David – are a result of certain Europeans believing that they have a superior culture!
Exactly. :/
Das tut mir leid.
Thank you!
It’s a bit sobering when you walk through a beautiful countryside, and you come across the many reminders of war and genocide.
On the other hand, it’s good sign that somebody is bothering to put up these memorials.
And they always make me pause, sit down and think and reflect.
Much is made of the Holocaust as a reversion to barbarism. Perhaps the emotional appeal of pagan-sounding paeans to Blood and Soil gave it an early boost. But its mass industrial methods may have been the culmination of a far more rational project, the extolling of physical and ethnic types as science shown by eugenics and phrenology in the early 20th century. So maybe it was seen as a kind of ‘advancement’.
This gives me an opportunity to link to my article about (one aspect of) the history of eugenics: