I visited Europe by rail in 2008. Germans do no "celebrate" the horror of WW2. As a people and a nation they are a strong force when it comes to teaching the future generation about their past, the rise of Hitler, the horror of war, the mass destruction of their nation and the murder of 6 million Jews. Germans use anything left over from their past as never ending "monuments" to teach their children that they in the future must never repeat the same mistakes. And that is their culture. Now if the statue of Robert E Lee was used in the same way the Germans treat their "monuments" of WW2 as something of pure evil on mankind that the traitor Lee was to America, who was active in trying to destroy the union and that thousands of Americans died for his cause as well as mistreatment of humans forced into bondage against their will would serve as a reminder to Americans that we must never forget the evils of the Civil War in this nation, you could have an argument. But we know, it is not so.