Holocaust memorial architect's gas chamber joke misfires

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.

Peter Eisenman, who is himself Jewish, quipped at a meeting of the project’s trustees in Berlin last month that his dentist told him his gold fillings came from the same German company whose former subsidiary supplied Zyklon B cyanide tablets for the gas chambers during the Second World War.