OhCrap, if you’re reading this, we were talking about Estonia earlier. Well, here a news item of interest:

http://news.err.ee/b2434638-aa41-41a8-88b5-8205ca2a0313

The director of the Estonian History Museum has refused demands by a leader of the nation’s Jewish community to remove an exhibit containing material on Nazi war criminal Alfred Rosenberg, saying that it would be wrong to bury the past, no matter how ugly it may be.

The comments came in response to a letter that Alla Jakobsen, chairwoman of the Jewish Community of Estonia, sent to the Minister of Culture in recent days. In it she complained that the museum’s exhibition, and another at a Tallinn high school, present Rosenberg without mentioning his war crimes.

http://news.err.ee/politics/fa1ef6bd-16e3-4669-bbfa-bc575f7f87f2

The head of the parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee has said the Estonian History Museum’s exhibit on a Tallinn-born German who was one of the architects of the Third Reich does not provide enough context about his role in the Holocaust.

“The criticism of the Jewish Community is understandable and is deserving of support,” said Marko Mihkelson in his widely-read blog.

Mihkelson said he had visited the exhibit on the senior Nazi, Alfred Rosenberg, and found it to lack sufficient context. He also questioned its positioning, sandwiched between an exhibit on the Estonian Salvation Committee of 1918 and US diplomat George Kennan.

“I imagine what a strange impression or confusion the exhibit at the History Museum in its current context might produce in those who are not indifferent with regard to the crimes against humanity committed during World War II,” said Mihkelson.

“Perhaps it is an inappropriate comparison, but I don’t think the school or birthplace of Norwegian mass murderer Breivik would highlight that man’s actions similarly to Tallinn.”

Alla Jakobson, chairwoman of the Jewish Community of Estonia, had written to the Minister of Culture complaining that the museum’s exhibition, and one at a Tallinn secondary school, depict Rosenberg without mentioning his war crimes.