The Nazi hunter, Simon Wiesenthal, has said he is opposed to plans to build a massive stone memorial in Berlin to the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust.

Mr Wiesenthal, whose family died in Nazi death camps, said in a German newspaper interview with Welt am Sonntag that the Holocaust had too many faces for a memorial.

He also said that Jewish memorials were never out of stone; most often they were books.

The German parliament is expected to make a final decision on a Holocaust memorial next year, ending more than ten years of often acrimonious debate.