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Iran defiant as anger mounts over Holocaust forum
Breitbart.com ^ | Dec. 12, 2006 | Breitbart

Posted on 12/12/2006 11:42:24 AM PST by DogByte6RER

Iran defiant as anger mounts over Holocaust forum

Dec 12 9:37 AM US/Eastern

Iran has pressed on with a controversial Holocaust conference as international outrage mounted over its hosting of "revisionist" historians who cast doubt on the mass slaughter of Jews in World War II.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Tuesday slammed the conference as "shocking beyond belief", a sentiment echoed by his Israeli counterpart Ehud Olmert and German Chancellor Angela Merkel

A host of Western "revisionists" who doubt the slaughter of six million Jews in World War II took place, including a former Ku Klux Klan leader and a Frenchman given a suspended jail term in October, have taken part.

Iran said that the aim of the conference was to find answers to questions about the Holocaust from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has described it as a "myth" and cast doubt on the scale of the slaughter.

Papers delivered Tuesday by participants from countries ranging from Austria to Indonesia included "A Challenge to the Official Holocaust Story", and "Holocaust, the Achilles Heel of a Primordial Jewish Trojan".

"I think it is such a symbol of sectarianism and hatred towards people of another religion, I find it just unbelievable," said Blair. "I found that this conference that they had questioning the Holocaust is shocking beyond belief.

"If you're going to invite the former head of the Ku Klux Klan to a conference in Tehran which disputes the millions of people who died in the Holocaust, then what further evidence do you need to have that this regime is extreme?" said Blair.

Olmert led a chorus of angry condemnation from the Jewish state over the two-day meeting which started on Monday.

"The conference in Iran was sickening and shows the depths of the hatred," Olmert said, calling on the world "to disassociate itself from Iran and all the participants of the conference".

German Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned "in the strongest terms" dismissals of the Holocaust by the "revisionist" historians. In its reaction to the conference, the Vatican described the Holocaust as an "appalling tragedy to which one cannot remain indifferent."

Some of the most notorious Western figures who have downplayed the scale of the Holocaust have been attending the event, including French professor Robert Faurisson and German-born Australian Fredrick Toeben.

The conference wrapped up in the early afternoon and all of the participants, who have showered the Iranian president with praise throughout the meeting, were bussed away for a private meeting with Ahmadinejad.

In Tehran, an assistant of Toeben, who maintains the existence of gas chambers is an "outright lie", tried to show his claim using a model of the Treblinka extermination camp the researcher had brought to the conference.

"There is no scientific proof to show that this place was an extermination camp. All that exists are the words of some people," said Richard Krege.

He claimed that only 5,000 people died in the camp, of disease. Most historians believe that at least 800,000 prisoners were murdered in the camp.

The conference is the latest brush with controversy for the Islamic republic, which is already facing UN sanctions for failing to agree to halt sensitive nuclear work.

Historians specialising in the Third Reich, basing their figures on original Nazi documents, generally believe around six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust, although some estimates are slightly lower or higher. Hitler's regime also killed millions of non-Jews.

It is a crime to deny the Holocaust in a dozen European countries, including Germany and Austria.

Mainstream scholars of the Holocaust meanwhile held a counter gathering in Berlin on Monday to condemn the conference, entitled "Study of the Holocaust: A Global Perspective".

US academic Raul Hilberg, the author of "Destruction of the European Jews", which is widely considered one of the standard texts on the Holocaust, said he wanted to make "a statement" by attending the Berlin conference.

The European Jewish Congress "condemned in the strongest terms" the "negationist and revisionist" conference in Iran attended by Western figures it described as "pseudo-historians and intellectuals".


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: ahmadinejad; axisofevil; evil; genocide; holocaust; holocaustdeniers; iran; islamofascism; revision; teheran
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Ahmadinejad and the Iranian mullahs are the Nazi 4th Reich.
1 posted on 12/12/2006 11:42:29 AM PST by DogByte6RER
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To: DogByte6RER

Is Jimmy Carter there?


2 posted on 12/12/2006 11:43:42 AM PST by elhombrelibre (A sober Jimmy Carter says what Mel Gibson would only say in a very drunken rant.)
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Never Forget: The main entrance of Auschwitz Extermination Camp, with its infamous motto "Work Makes One Free." Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting
3 posted on 12/12/2006 11:45:08 AM PST by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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Never Forget: German guards outside the Kommandant's house at Belzec death camp in 1942. Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting
4 posted on 12/12/2006 11:46:16 AM PST by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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Never Forget: Nazi stormtroopers bar the Berlin entrance to a Jewish shop. Their signs read: "Germans, defend yourselves against the Jewish atrocity proaganda, buy only at German shops!" and "Germans, defend yourselves, buy only at German shops!" (1933) Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting
5 posted on 12/12/2006 11:47:25 AM PST by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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Never Forget: Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels urges a Berlin crowd to boycott Jewish businesses. (April 1933) Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting
6 posted on 12/12/2006 11:48:34 AM PST by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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I wonder how many people realize that Saddam's Baath party was inspired by and helped form by Nazi Germany. There is a strong influence of former Nazi elements still throughout the Middle East.
7 posted on 12/12/2006 11:49:16 AM PST by mnehring (Virtus Junxit mors non Separabit)
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Never Forget: A synagogue burns in Siegen, Germany, on November, 10 1938. Kristallnacht, or The Night of Broken Glass, was a large-scale coordinated attack on Jews throughout the German Reich. Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting
8 posted on 12/12/2006 11:50:14 AM PST by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: DogByte6RER

Have to say, Jim Baker sure picked a bad day to give up isolating Iran.


9 posted on 12/12/2006 11:52:00 AM PST by Williams
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To: DogByte6RER

Let's also not forget Bill Clinton travelled to the Middle East and praised Iran for being the only country to consistently elect a government in keeping with his "progressive" ideals.


10 posted on 12/12/2006 11:52:42 AM PST by Williams
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To: DogByte6RER
I don't believe Photoshop was in existence in the 1940s - so what do these nut jobs think this is a picture of?

(Sorry for the graphic photo - but sometimes peolple need to be reminded of what happened)


11 posted on 12/12/2006 11:52:59 AM PST by Tokra (I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
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Never Forget: German soldiers on the way to Poland. The inscription on the railway car reads: "We are going to Poland to strike at the Jews." On the left, an antisemitic drawing of a Jew. Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting
12 posted on 12/12/2006 11:53:11 AM PST by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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"It is a crime to deny the Holocaust in a dozen European countries, including Germany and Austria."

Now this is where I have a major problem.

If you have truth on your side, what is your reason to criminalize questions and criticism?

There are lefties in this country who adamantly deny that millions of people died after we bugged out on our allies in Vietnam and Cambodia, even though I lived through that period in refugee camps and saw first hand the destruction.

Should I insist on passing a law that would have those lefties jailed? Or just let truth do the justice?

Everyone is free to their opinions. Even if they are ignorant and stupid.

But since when do we criminalize ignorance and stupidity?
13 posted on 12/12/2006 11:54:55 AM PST by Al Gator (Refusing to "stoop to your enemy's level", gets you cut off at the knees.)
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To: mnehrling
The Middle Eastern despots ("secular" or "religious") and terrorists are not only heirs to the Third Reich, they ARE the offspring (literally) of the Third Reich. Just look up Nasser, al-Husseini, Rashid Gailani, Aflaq and Muslim Brotherhood... and you will see the Nazi sources of Baathism, Al-Qaeda, Hamas and Pan-Arabism. And the Iranian Mullahcracy is aspiring to finish what Hitler started.
14 posted on 12/12/2006 11:55:01 AM PST by SolidWood
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Never Forget: Buchenwald prisoners in nearby woods just before their execution. (1933) Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting
15 posted on 12/12/2006 11:55:32 AM PST by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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No quote from Kofi the Klown. He went all the way to Independence, Missouri, yesterday to attack the U.S. One would think he'd be more vocal about this outrage.
16 posted on 12/12/2006 11:55:33 AM PST by colorado tanker
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To: mnehrling

When is somebody going to eliminate them from the world?


17 posted on 12/12/2006 11:55:53 AM PST by wastedyears ("By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: DogByte6RER

bttt


18 posted on 12/12/2006 11:55:55 AM PST by dennisw
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Never Forget: Crematoria ovens in Buchenwald concentration camp. Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting
19 posted on 12/12/2006 11:56:34 AM PST by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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To: mnehrling

Well, both Saddam and Hitler were indeed socialist genocidal monsters.

But, of course, we aren't allowed to compare them as their mustaches were totally different.


20 posted on 12/12/2006 11:56:56 AM PST by Blue State Insurgent (Those who know the truth need to speak out against these kinds of myths, and lies, and distortions..)
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