the Active Museum led the opposition, arguing that a central memorial to victims was fine in Washington or Jerusalem, but that the land of the perpetrators had more pressing tasks of remembrance. Germany could honor its victims at dozens of concentration camps, including Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück, both just outside Berlin and both sadly neglected. These were authentic places of victims, in other words, while the chancellery was an authentic place of perpetrators, where attention should be devoted to the causes of mass murder, not its effects.
