Modern Castles

Many argue that the remaining towers should be left to moulder quietly in to oblivion as should the Nazi past of the country. There are, of course, the public safety arguments that go against this – as well as those that say these monuments should be fully preserved in memory of the war and its visctims, but it remains a poignant argument

This does not, to me, seem like an especially hard question; we have preserved many awe-inspiring buildings that are also associated with horrors; the Crusader castles in and around Israel and Palestine were the result of the invasions by the Franks, with the objective of wiping out Muslims in the “Holy Land”. The great castles of the north of England and the south of Scotland are mostly testament to power aquired in the Borders by butchery. The castles of Wales were tools to brutalise anyone who diasgreed with English control of said country.

In more extreme examples, the Cathedral of Carcassonne became assocaited with the Crusades against, and wholesale extermination of the Cathars: a religious genocide. We do not, however, contemplate obliterating the traces of this savagery.

If we can keep those things—and many others—I don’t see any reason to discard the flak towers.