Everyday disorientation?

CBC News: Germany opens memorial to its ‘most terrible crime’

“With 2,711 tilted concrete slabs rising from uneven ground, the maze-like memorial is meant to convey the disorientation and confusion of Holocaust victims.

There are no plaques or explanatory inscriptions so visitors can interpret the site on their own, said New York architect Peter Eisenmann, who built the $44-million memorial.

‘I like to think that people will use it for shortcuts, as an everyday experience, not as a holy place,’ he said.”

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