Even many Germans who back a Holocaust memorial in principle question the form it is most likely to take a labyrinth of some 2, 500 concrete pillars spreading across a plot of 20, 000 square metres between the Brandenburg Gate and the (unmarked) site of Hitler's bunker.
"We had a letter from the Chilean embassy back in October and they asked us, especially as the bells weren't in use, to consider gifting them to the people of Chile so that they could form a new memorial to the disaster in time for the 150th anniversary, " said Canon Evans.