GERMANY opened its long-delayed Holocaust memorial yesterday - a field of closely set concrete slabs in the heart of Berlin that tries to summon the helplessness of six million Jews killed by the Nazis.

Germany opened its long-delayed national Holocaust memorial today - a field of closely set concrete slabs in the heart of Berlin that tries to summon the helplessness of 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis.

The American designer of Germany’s long-delayed national Holocaust memorial has apologised for a joke that local Jewish leaders said made light of the Nazi gas chambers.