The mayor of Berlin questioned whether Germany should go ahead with plans to build a national Holocaust memorial. Adding his voice to a national debate that has gone on for a decade, Eberhard Diepgen told an interviewer that it might not be “possible to deal with this horror artistically.” Jewish leaders criticized his comments, saying they could send the message that Germany was unwilling to confront its Nazi past.
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