Berlin - Plans to build a memorial in Berlin to Jewish victims of the Holocaust are in chaos after Chancellor Helmut Kohl vetoed the design chosen by an international jury. Berlin's city government has announced a new competition to design the memorial, which is to be built next to the Brandenburg Gate.
The rejected design by Christine Jakob-Marks would have taken the form of a concrete gravestone bigger than a football pitch with six million names carved on stone slabs set into it. Dr Kohl was not alone in regarding the design as a monstrosity and some critics pointed out that the names of many of Hitler's Jewish victims are unknown.
Officials insist that the memorial will be built in time for the arrival of the German government in Berlin in 1999. - (Guard- ian Service)