Berlin – Cracks Spread in Berlin Holocaust Memorial.

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    Berlin – The Holocaust memorial in Berlin is showing signs of serious wear and tear just three years after its completion, with cracks in more than half of its concrete blocks, according to a study published on Monday.
    Structural engineer Joachim Schulz conducted a survey of the field of blocks located in Berlin’s central Mitte district at the end of last year for Germany’s Cicero magazine.

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    Almost fourteen hundred of the 2,711 blocks that make up the site are beginning to crack, he said in an interview published in the monthly magazine’s latest edition.
    ‘Sixty percent of the cracks are minor faults and not really visible but 40 percent are bigger than 0.2 millimetres and that’s worrying,’ said Schulz.

    Hindered by design and construction disagreements that attracted global media attention, the memorial was completed in May 2005 at a cost of 27 million euros($39.1million).

    The most controversial issue surrounding its design was the role of Degussa – the company that supplied the anti-graffiti paint for the blocks.

    Construction was briefly halted in late 2003 after it emerged the firm’s parent manufactured the poison gas used in Nazi death camps.

    Structural damage to the Holocaust memorial, which covers 19,000 square metres (205,000 square feet), was first recorded in January 2006 when 400-450 blocks were showing cracks. [reuters]


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