Iran Challenges Europe to Hand Over Holocaust 'Proof'

Asharq Al-Awsat / AFP ^ | 2/6/07

[Valin]

TEHRAN (AFP) - An Iranian government-sponsored body set up to probe the veracity of the Holocaust has challenged Europe to hand over documents about the mass slaughter of Jews in World War II. Mohammad Ali Ramin, the head of the "World Holocaust Foundation" created after Iran's controversial Holocaust conference last year, said Austria, Germany and Poland in particular should supply documents. "They should hand over the proof for the dossier on the organized massacre of Jews in Europe during World War II to the independent international fact-finding committee affiliated to this foundation," the IRNA state news agency quoted him as saying on Tuesday.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered the creation of the foundation after inviting a number of controversial revisionist Holocaust researchers to a conference in Tehran in December that caused an international outcry. Ahmadinejad has repeatedly questioned the scale of the Holocaust, described the mass killing of six million Jews in World War II as a "myth" and also called for Israel to be "wiped from the map". The foreign researchers invited to the conference -- some of whom have criminal records at home -- gave papers claiming the Holocaust never happened on the scale assumed by the vast majority of historians.

Mainstream historians specialising in the Third Reich counter there is ample documentary proof that around six million Jews were killed by the Nazis in World War II although some estimates put the figure slightly higher or lower. The UN General Assembly last month unanimously approved a US-proposed resolution condemning denial of the Holocaust, in a move diplomats said was directly aimed at Iran's stance.

[Valin]

I'm gonna need a link/source on that.
I know the governor of Iraq tried to go over to the Nazis, and the Brits invaded and put an end to that.

[darth]

I did not find the info on WWII history on the web. I am reading the 40 volume Time Life History of WWII. The info in question is in the volume on the Russian Front.

[MaestroLC]

The world must make a choice in the face of these fascist Holocaust Deniers:

Second Holocaust or Never Again.

[goldstategop]

Jews? What Jewish victims? The Jews still deserve to be annihilated! That's the message out of Iran.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Valin]

I am reading the 40 volume Time Life History of WWII

And I thought I didn't have a life! :-)

I'm reading "Team of Rivals" (The political genius of Abraham Lincoln)
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Ican
t believe I, 1 actually bought it, 2 am enjoying it.