Of course nobody want's to deliberate offend people and if it were a modern sign then it would be removed. However I don't think things of historical significance should be taken away as in someways denies things ever happened and it's always better to learn from the mistakes of history.

It should of course stay. Half of art would have to be burned if we were to be PC.

Well, correct or not. It is a nice piece of art :)

It's very beautiful and very nice!

PC is destructive of everything cultural, including itself! I remember the PC arguments for destroying the Tintin series, the Blake and Mortimer series, the Asterix series and a few other popular comic series all caused by a destructive PC fool. As durleybeachbum says, to be PC we would have to burn half of all art. PC is the modern day fascism. Keep up the good work! :-)

Love the old art - removing these is like when they tried to rewrite Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn - I found that so much more offensive than the original

As Marcel Proust would say "A La Recherche De Temps Perdu." I don't believe in destroying art because it has become politically and socially out of date. If we forget things like slavery, then there is always the temptation for it to return in different forms. I feel much the same way about Confederate monuments in the U.S. Rather than sandblasting the Stone Mountain Confederate sculpture, a display that explains why it was put up and why some people object to it would increase public knowledge of what went on in the past. Of course if governments want to move a piece of art, then that is their prerogative, but don't destroy it.

so many things has been removed here in the states, but there are so many people out there that still lives in the past. hopefully they are on the radar of the powers to be. many of the people that argues to remove a historical questionable art, are doing it for their name to be heard in the media with plans on running for public office

I wonder if this image showed a half-dressed French boy demurely serving a pleased-looking Gestapo agent if it would still be around (or if there'd be the same comments.) Haven't been to France in many years... are there lots of images of the German occupation still around? Statues of Klaus Barbie and the like? And if not, isn't there a danger we'll forget the history?

"Paths of Glory," a film directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Kirk Douglas, described the mutiny of French infantrymen during WWI. French troops were ordered by incompetent officers to attack obviously impregnable German positions. The half-hearted assault petered out when immediately greeted by withering machine-gun fire. To proceed meant certain death, sensible men refused to step from whatever cover they could find, many declined even to leave their trenches. Afterwards several representatives from various units were selected by lot, charged with cowardice in the face of the enemy, tried, found guilty, and executed. The officers who had ordered the preposterous mission received not so much as a reprimand.

France banned the film immediately upon its release and the work has never been screened in that country. No French government has even considered overturning the ban. Little wonder that some call history a lie written by the victors.