Posted on 02/21/2006 7:43:07 PM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
A FORMER Australian beauty queen has called for the bodies of Holocaust victims to be dug up to see if they really were gassed.
Lady Michele Renouf, who was Miss Newcastle 1968 and briefly married to financier Sir Frank Renouf, questioned whether Nazi extermination camps killed six million Jews during World War II.
The socialite divorcee was speaking outside a Vienna court where British historian David Irving was jailed for three years yesterday for denying the Holocaust.
Irving, 67, pleaded guilty after admitting he'd been wrong to doubt the Nazi extermination of millions of Jews.
The charges relate to a lecture he gave 17 years ago in Austria, which was once run by the Nazis.
It is a crime to deny the Holocaust in Austria, the country where Adolf Hitler was born.
Irving was arrested when he returned to Vienna in November.
Outside court, Lady Renouf, 59, ran the risk of being charged herself when she called for the bodies of "so-called Holocaust victims to be exhumed to see whether they died from typhoid or gas".
Dressed in a pinstripe suit with a Union Jack lapel pin, she praised Irving for "standing up to the Zionists".
"I am here to free David Irving and free Austria from this totalitarian law," she said.
Formerly Michele Mainwaring, she acquired her title after a brief 1991 marriage to Sir Frank, who described the union as a "nasty accident".
Sir Frank terminated the marriage after he found out that far from being the "Countess Griaznoff" she claimed, his wife was in fact the daughter of a Central Coast NSW truck driver.
Since then she has become a fixture on the London society circuit and been an outspoken anti-Semite who was kicked out of an exclusive club for her views. She once reportedly called herself the world's "most unsuccessful bimbo".
Jeremy Jones, from the Australia-Israel Jewish Affairs Council, described her comments yesterday as "mindbogglingly stupidity even for a supporter of David Irving".
Irving has been banned from Australia, where he has a Queensland-based daughter, Beatrice.
He will appeal against the jail sentence.
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I know this is a little risky, but I have a problem with "thought crimes".
How can she keep her title then?!
Considering the growing number of anti-semites in Europe, the laws against Holocaust denial must not be very effective.
Wow. The knowledge gap is rather HUGE here.
I know that Iran's are not very effective.
Well, I happen to be Count Griaznoff and I have never heard of this trash!
What are they going to use, a sifter?
They showed pictures of the inmates of camps which they rescued, at least those who were sitll alive.
The thought hit me that it didn't make much difference how they died, whoever was responsible for that being done to other people was beneath being called human.
I hate to ask a stupid question but If there was no holocaust, where did six million people go? where the hell do you did they go? Is Europe some kind of Jewish Roanoake?
Pretty. Stupid.
Pretty stupid.
There are more and more Europeans who are anti-semites. Look at the polls. There aren't enough Muslims in any European country to produce such a lopsided poll as the one showing that a majority of Frenchmen consider Israel to be the greatest threat to global security.
A big LOL!!!
Seriously - the freedom to speak one's thoughts, however strange or unpopular - is important.
The historian got 3 years in jail for his unpopular views. Is that something we would want?
Empathy and defense of this tiny global community truly is, on a larger scale now, indistinguisable from the intellectual, emotional and psychological mindset required to understand and oppose the German socialists led by Hitler.
Not here. But in Germany and Austria, given their special recent history, I think it's important.
Yep. She only has two presentations worth consideration.
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