Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
Denkmalsturz
English answer:
cultural disinheriting/disinheritance
English term
MOnument(al) protection
is "monumental protection" really used in English? It's supposed to mean "Cultural heritage management", or "Denkmalschutz" in German, but what I find on Google makes me suspect this is a Germanism and not really English.
I'm actually trying to translate a pun, "Denkmalsturz", that would work well, I could just swap "protection" for "destruction", but the word needs to be really idiomatic and well used for that to work.
Jul 5, 2011 16:49: AllegroTrans changed "Language pair" from "German to English" to "English to German"
Jul 5, 2011 16:49: AllegroTrans changed "Language pair" from "English to German" to "English"
Jul 5, 2011 18:21: Anja C. changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"
Jul 19, 2011 07:02: British Diana Created KOG entry
PRO (3): Lancashireman, Steffen Walter, Anja C.
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Germany
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Native in: English (Variant: British) 
Works in: German to English, English to German, English, and 1 more.
cultural disinheriting/disinheritance
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Lancashireman
: 'cultural disinheritance' - good idea. This author has even coined the term 'disheritage' http://www.univie.ac.at/Very-Vienna/magazin/artikel/5/5.html
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A good idea, too, but the Asker thinks it should be idiomatic and well-used...
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Phong Le
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Thanks, Phong!
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destruction of cultural monuments
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Thuy-PTT (X)
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Discussion
http://jes.sagepub.com/content/28/1/202.extract
'''Denkmalsturz''' bezeichnet die öffentliche Beseitigung von Herrscherbildern.
Has to be longer in EN: preserving/destroying monuments etc.
The protection, destruction of monuments.
The preservation, demolition of monuments (the rise and fall of monuments ;-)
You need to post this Q as 'Denkmalsturz' and express your misgivings as a supplementary note.
One possible approach: Cultural heritage (mis)management