Here is where we will deal with the perpetrators of those 12 years. It is where we will deal with the question of how in 150 days, from January to June 1933, a democracy was turned into a totalitarian dictatorship that was able in that short time to subordinate all of the institutions of the state to its purpose. |
I find that better than bringing all these institutions under one unified organization, because the monolithic view of history was what the Nazis did. Here we will see history from different perspectives. |
Outside the museum window was an empty space with a sign, 'You are standing on the grounds of the former torture chamber of the Gestapo. That in a way was the start of the debate about what to do there. |