And... Someone is gonna ask me about the sculpture

of the street-washing Jew. Can we back UP here just a bit? Teeney tiny?

Okay... As I understand it... The Nazis FORCED the surviving Jewish populace to clean up the mess they supposedly made after Kristallnacht, when they trashed their businesses, wrecked their homes, and they had to scrub the streets. On their hands and knees. In Vienna.

This monument was put up on what used to be a flat-iron building which was bombed by the US, but was about the Jewish population in Vienna, and the hell they went through. The figure is before a 'Gate to Hell', and there are some other elements on that site. They never got the bodies out. So it is hallowed ground.

At the time... people were fully angry for having their faces wiped in their pasts. I found it appropriate....

Oh, I'd nearly forgotton... they had a subsequent 'problem' with that sculpture. Tourists had no idea what it was about, thought it was a bench, and sat on it, eating hamburgers from MacD's. To say THAT was disrespectful is the understatement of the decade.... So they had to string barbed wire over it so that no one would sit on it. Good solution.