Israel's Netanyahu given Holocaust plans in Berlin

German journalists handed the Israeli leader, in Berlin for talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel, a portfolio of 29 plans from the Auschwitz death camp discovered last year.

With his wife Sara at his side, Netanyahu said her father's family had been nearly wiped out by Nazis in World War Two.

"We cannot allow evil to prepare the mass death of innocents. The most important thing to do is to nip it in the bud," said Netanyahu, alluding to past threats by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to wipe Israel off the map.

In their talks, Netanyahu and Merkel discussed Iran's disputed nuclear program, which Israel sees as a threat to its existence. Netanyahu is keen for tougher Western sanctions against Iran to halt Tehran's nuclear program.

Netanyahu said Allied powers had failed to act in time to prevent Nazis killing 6 million Jews in the Holocaust.

"Armed barbarism knows no limits," he said. "It has to be unarmed, disarmed in time."