Posted on 01/27/2015 11:21:02 AM PST by Olog-hai
Dr. Efraim Zuroff, the head Nazi hunter at the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told Arutz Sheva on Tuesday in time for International Holocaust Memorial Day that the battle over the Holocaust lives on—and is being waged on the field of public memory.
According to Zuroff, aside from the widespread scourge of Holocaust denial, a new phenomenon has reared its head recently in eastern Europe, where there are attempts to minimize the genocidal horrors committed against the Jewish people and revise history.
“This phenomenon should worry the state of Israel and the Foreign Ministry,” emphasized Zuroff. “In post-Communist eastern Europe, they’re trying to play down the crimes of the Nazi cooperators and claim that the crimes of the Communists were just as bad, and that both of them committed genocide.”
Zuroff elaborated: “They’re trying to reduce the uniqueness of the Holocaust, and even to claim that among the Communist criminals were Jews too.” …
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Is acknowledging the crimes of communism now akin the being a holocaust denier?
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