Well the truth is that just thinking about Pirna makes me feel sad. The airfield is fantastic, the people are lovely, it's historic centre is pretty. But it's where a whole heap of mentally handicapped people were herded into a church and set alight. The castle complex containing the church is now a sheltered workshop for the disabled, which seems like an odd choice to me, but I really don't want to have to read any more about this to understand why they made this choice. What do you think, would you place a sheltered workshop somewhere where the kind of people who work there were massacred 60 or so years earlier?
And what do you think about grim little memorials like this fire stained church? My gut reaction is to tear it down, take it away and what is represents is just too horrible, but maybe we need this kind of reminder?
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