Walking around Germany today, one sees few signs of the brutal years of Nazi rule. Aside from concentration camps and a handful of larger sites like Berlin’s Olympic Stadium and the Nuremberg Rally Grounds preserved as memorials, Germany has scrubbed away signs of its dark past and replaced them with memorials remembering countless victims. From the early 1930s until 1945, swastikas and Reichsadlers (“eagles of the Reich,” which usually held swastikas in their talons) were splashed over every German city, town, and small village in the country. Today, it is…
