The German government, more specifically the Green Party, is not reconciled to its own history. Culture Minister Claudia Roth has now come up with the idea that the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation should be renamed. The minister previously threw down a biblical quote and a cross from a building, but his party partner, the foreign minister, is also trying to bury history.
The German government is not at all reconciled to German history or to Christianity, at least this is indicated by the rampage that the government coalition party called the Greens started in 2022. Claudia Roth, the federal government commissioner responsible for culture and media, recently announced that she intends to rename the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation.
The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation is a federal government agency that oversees a total of 27 museums and cultural organizations in and around Berlin.
It covers all Berlin state museums, the Berlin State Library, the Prussian State Archives, as well as numerous institutes and research centers. It has a huge art collection that includes objects from ancient Egypt to the present day. Roth's problem is that the current name, which was inherited from the former Prussia, does not express the cosmopolitanism of the exhibited cultural objects, that is, the cosmopolitan outlook. It is no wonder that the Green Party minister's proposal did not win the approval of the general public, who condemned the plan and accused the Green Party of waging a cultural war against German history. The Greens are trying to shed an unwanted historical burden, said Wolfgang Thierse, the former speaker of the German parliament, claiming that no other European state is concerned with burying its history in this way.
Roth is not only at war with history, he also wants to wipe out Christianity in Germany. At least this is indicated by the fact that he also wanted to take down the inscription of the Berlin City Palace consisting of an amalgam of biblical quotations. The culture warrior government commissioner deemed the following quote radical and exclusionary in relation to other religions: "There is no salvation in anything else [...] than in the name of Jesus, to the glory of God the Father. That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, which is in heaven and on earth and under the earth”.
Claudia Roth believes that Christian symbols are symbols of colonialism, are outdated, exclude other religions, and therefore offend the sensibilities of many. Moreover, according to him, they do not express the openness of today's Germany to the world either. This is how it happened that he also wanted to throw down the cross on the building. Anyway, Claudia Roth has little to do with culture, her academic career ended after two university semesters.
Roth is not the only one who wants to bury history at all costs. His party colleague, Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, removed the name of the founder of modern Germany, Otto von Bismarck, from the door of her ministry's central room.
By the way, German views on Bismarck and Prussia are highly polarized today. While some see the Prussian virtues of hard work and religious tolerance as a model to follow, others say that Prussia represented what allowed the Nazis to dominate society. In any case, the foreign minister also wants to erase Christianity from German culture. The meeting of the G7 group, which brings together the most advanced industrial countries, was held in Münster recently because the city in the province of North Rhine-Westphalia was one of the main locations for the drafting of the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, which ended the Thirty Years' War, which destroyed a large part of Europe. And Baerbock had a centuries-old crucifix removed from the peace room of Münster's historic town hall for the summit, saying that the Christian symbol could be offensive to people of other religions.
Source: V4NA / Hungarian Nation
