Construction has begun on the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, four years after the German Parliament approved its design. In ceremonies last Friday, German legislator Wolfgang Thierse said the memorial was expected to be finished in two years, in time to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II.
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