Berlin Holocaust memorial drew millions in first year

by innes | May 12, 2006 at 03:32 pm
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Berlin's new Holocaust memorial has become one of Germany's most popular tourist attractions, drawing an estimated 3.5 million people in its first year, officials said on Monday.

"It has become a tourist magnet," Uwe Neumaerker, director of the foundation that oversees the memorial, told reporters.

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rumana husain

i was simply amazed at the ingenuity of the designer, architect peter eisenman. placing 2,711 stones on sloping, uneven ground, which of course has much more to it than that! i saw a documentary about this memorial at the goethe-institut karachi sometime ago.

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at 06:21 on July 31st, 2008

innes, I like this story. It's good stuff.

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