Change Kitchener's name back to Berlin?

[jamincan]

Often times history tends to smooth over a figurehead's rougher edges (Churchill being an excellent example), and commemorating that person is problematic. Kitchener's name seems different to me, though. It's not like there is a naive view of our eponym in the city. People are either ignorant of the name's origin, or understand the irony that in an act of what was essentially wartime political theatre, we discarded a name that now is perfectly uncontroversial and a nice reference to the history of Germanic settlers in the area, for the name of someone who's modern legacy is that he invented the concentration camp. It's not like there are a group of people who venerate Lord Kitchener and don't want people to tarnish his good legacy. If anything, it's a slightly embarrassing footnote in the city's history and a bit of a lesson in getting carried away in a nationalistic outrage.

With that in mind, in the spirit of being honest about our history and to avoid forgetting our blunder, in lieu of renaming the city (a move I'm mostly neutral on) it might be interesting if there was some sort of monument in Victoria Park that honestly explains Lord Kitchener's legacy and the history behind the renaming of the city.