Summary
Construction of airstrip during World War II
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Invisible History.
Of all the moments in the history of Breslau/Wroclaw, the Nazis' building of the airstrip during World War II stands alone in its unique perversity, demonstrating how amoral motives of self-preservation surpassed even the racist principles of the Third Reich.
A visitor traveling through areas in Europe scarred by the Nazi era soon encounters the obvious--places where human tragedy has been memorialized and some attempt has been made to explain to the visitor what happened there: grim rows of barracks preserved in Auschwitz; the white marble marker where hundreds of children died during an air raid in Vienna. These obvious memorials are important and necessary. But there are other places deserving recognition--ones which are invisible unless their significance is explained. ...See the full content of this document
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