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The Jewish Holocaust Museum in my city of funded by people, charitable funds, and corporate donations.

It seems like they should do something like that. If nothing else, monuments to government atrocities should not be run by the government...

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So you live in Germany? I would say it’s important to for the government to fund memorials of atrocities if the government was responsible for them, even if it’s an entirely new government.

But how would they fare if AfD were to get elected ... that's the problem here, isn't it? Do you really want these musea to be subject to the whims of changing government officials, especially in Germany where sooner or later an extreme-right government will come to power, at least at a local level? Same is true for all of Europe, really.

A lot of musea covering the many atrocities in East Germany have already disappeared. And even in the Berlin wall museum the reminders that the last leftists to rule there shot (many) people for the crime of trying to leave socialist utopia. In most Universities the academic victims of Soviet rule aren't remembered anymore.

So this is not a theoretical concern.

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