Kulturarvsbrott i krigstid: TimesOnline skriver om boken The Destruction of Memory: Architecture at War:

Architectural destruction is like a drug. It’s addictive. It’s instant proof of change, of authority. That’s why it is so popular. And that’s why it can become so rabid. Carthage was not only destroyed by the Romans: its site was scattered with salt to make sure that nothing ever rose again. It’s as if in the pursuit of blood and soil we have to burrow deep to the earth’s core to fulfill a literally fundamentalist belief in the genius loci.