Just south of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, on a site near the bunker where Adolf Hitler committed suicide 60 years ago, government officials and World War II Holocaust survivors gathered recently to dedicate the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. A “field of stelae,” the memorial consists of 2,711 precast slabs, each 3 ft. wide and nearly 8 ft. long. Ranging in height from just a few inches to 13 feet tall, the stelae are arranged in straight rows to create an undulating plane as well as a grid of 3-ft.-wide pathways gently rising and falling across five acres in the heart of the city. Among precasters supplying the project was Hermann Geithner Söhne GmbH, whose slabs were fabricated at a plant less than 20 miles from the site.

Dedication of the memorial was timed closely with the May 9 celebration of the 60th anniversary of V-E Day, when Allied troops claimed victory over the Nazis. Although Hitler's underground quarters were destroyed after the war, the bunker of his second in command, Joseph Goebbels, remains and has been incorporated into the new memorial. New York architect Peter Eisenman was commissioned to the design the memorial, which has been under construction for two years.
— Dedication background from New York Times reports; precast-slab information from CP's October 2003 Final Form (page 52)