The architect of Germany’s Holocaust memorial criticized the decision to stop using a Nazi- linked company in the memorial’s construction. “All Germans cannot be held responsible for the sins of the fathers and grandfathers,” Peter Eisenman wrote Wednesday of the move to drop Degussa, a company that partly owned the firm that supplied Zyklon B poison gas to Nazi death camps.
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