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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran
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To: rrufff who wrote (3018)10/27/2003 12:12:01 PM
From: Scoobah  Read Replies (1) of 22250
 
This should silence the holocaust deniers:

Holocaust memorial backers exclude contractor with Nazi past

By The Associated Press



BERLIN - Backers of Germany's national Holocaust
memorial said Monday they have halted work on
erecting its central feature - 2,700 concrete
slabs - after deciding to exclude a company that
once part-owned the maker of the chemical used in
Nazi gas chambers.




Work on preparing the Berlin
site and laying the slabs'
foundations will continue,
but anti-graffiti treatment
of the slabs is being
suspended until a new
supplier is found, a
committee overseeing the
project said.


In the memorial's latest delay, the panel said
it dropped Degussa AG as coating contractor
because the company's past made it
"incompatible with the specific character of
the memorial project."

Degussa once owned a 42.2 percent share in
Degesch GmbH, which delivered Zyklon-B cyanide
tablets to the Nazis for use in the death
camps' gas chambers. IG Farben, a chemical
company dissolved by the Allies after World War
II, held another 42.2 percent.

Writer Lea Rosh, a prominent memorial supporter,
said Degussa had intended its involvement as a
reconciliatory gesture. But, after discussion,
backers decided that "we draw the line at
Zyklon-B," she said.

German politicians rallied behind the project in
the late 1990s, but wrangling over details
persisted even after the final design was
approved in 1999. Latest plans call for
completion by May 8, 2005 - 60 years after Nazi
Germany's defeat in World War II.
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