INDG 401 Lecture 11: LECTURE ON VIMY RIDGE
9 Jun 2018
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LECTURE ON VIMY RIDGE (GUESS LECTURE)
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Canadian's largest overseas memorial
Hitler liked the monument
shows general sadness and sorrow, whether you're British,
Canadian, German, you'll identify with it
Caribou looking at each other over the Atlantic
COMMEMORATION
transgressing the monument
- topless pregnancy photoshoot there
- men touching the statue's breast
- people taking their shirt off
- profaning the monument
- people peeing on the monument
les amis de Vimy and Vimy foundation help preserve the site
texts are in french, english and german
it included germans in the site
germans, because of the legacy of the WW2, might feel like they
don't have the right to come visit the monument
100 year anniversary last summer
negative feedback due to management
not enough toilets
not enough buses...
counter memorials
black boots represented 3000 men who had died were brought by
Canadian students
men buried close to where they actually died
thumbs for Muslim soldiers face Mecca
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