After years of delay, last slab of Holocaust monument put in place

[emad]

Luke Harding in Berlin
Thursday December 16, 2004
The Guardian

The last slab of Berlin's Holocaust Memorial was lowered into place yesterday, marking the end of nearly 20 years of wrangling in Germany over how to commemorate Europe's murdered Jews.

A yellow crane lowered the pillar into place, officially marking the end of major construction work.

The pillar was the last of 2,701 undulating concrete slabs to be erected on the vast site, next to Berlin's most famous monument, the Brandenburg Gate, and close to where Hitler's bunker once stood.

The idea for a monument to the six million Jews murdered by the Nazis in Europe originated in 1988, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the decision to make Berlin Germany's new capital.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,2763,1374673,00.html

[rolltide2005]

1. good

now we can get started on the iraqi holocaust memorial. and the iranian, and the syrain. might as well make it an omnibus Muslim holocaust memorial