As well as the reference to weapons of mass destruction being an "abused technology", the speech refers to "this madness of war".
One benefit of the destruction being so total, she says, is that without the old landmarks it's harder for sad memories to be triggered.
The deplorable state of many collections is an open secret amongst scholars but, due to fears of institutional retribution, many refuse to publicly draw attention to the destruction being committed.
You can imagine history's grim inventory of war and destruction being laid out before them as they examined how, from the 15th century, empires and upstarts had often fought for supremacy.
Although most of us in Europe were either blissfully unaware of, or chose to ignore, the destruction being wreaked across the continent, commodities, used throughout our society fuelled these conflicts.
But she says that largely, she remained in a bubble, unaware of the destruction being meted out by the Nazi regime on its enemies, despite the fact she was at the physical heart of the system.
