But neither has he endorsed his father's rather kooky views on the Holocaust. That is correct (although I believe he should rebuke his father and not suffer sin upon him). Mel Gibson admitted to Diane Sawyer that 6 million Jews were died in the Holocaust, according to this transcript. She asked the question for him and he answered "Sure."
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Hutton Gibson: "These people [World War II Nazis] are efficient. They know how to do things, and if they had set out to kill six million Jews, they would have done it. But all we hear about is Holocaust survivors. 'Oh, we knew it happened. Here is a survivor, there is a survivor. My father and mother were survivors.' They weren't that efficient.
There were too many survivors.
And they claim there were six million in Poland. After the war, there were 200,000, it is said. Therefore, he must have killed six million of them. They simply got up and left. They were all over the Bronx and Brooklyn and Sydney, Australia, and Los Angeles. They have to have some place to go where there is money. No, they don't work anywhere where they can get out of it. They are great pencil pushers and they are the superior people, and therefore they are entitled to the top jobs, supervisory stuff and so on."
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Transcript: The Passion February 22, 2004 Reporter: Diane Sawyer Producer: Primetime
- DIANE SAWYER: Gibson's father, Hutton Gibson, age 85, who has written books and a newsletter with some decidedly provocative terms of phrase. He has called the Pope "Garrulous Karolus, the Koran kisser". And in that New York Times magazine interview, he seemed to be questioning the scope of the holocaust, sceptical that six million Jews had died. What does Gibson think?
- MEL GIBSON: Do I believe that there were concentration camps where defenceless and innocent Jews died cruelly under the Nazi regime? Of course I do, absolutely. It was an atrocity of monumental proportion.
- DIANE SAWYER: And you believe there were millions, six million, millions?
- MEL GIBSON: Sure.
- DIANE SAWYER: I think people wondered if your father's views were your views on this.
- MEL GIBSON: Their whole agenda here, my detractors, is to drive a wedge between me and my father and it's not going to happen. I love him. He's my father.
- DIANE SAWYER: And you will not speak publicly about him beyond that.
- MEL GIBSON: I am tight with him. He's my father. Got to leave it alone, Diane. Got to leave it alone.
YOu have become obsessed with Mel and his father.
Look. There's no question that his father's a Holocaust revisionist. And perhaps Mel should convince his father that his views are wrong. But that's something that must be done privately within the family. And gently, when dealing with an 85 year old man whom he loves. With time, and God's help, maybe he could change his father's thinking.
I understand what your're saying about rebuke and not suffering sin. But publicly? It would devastate his father who's an old man. It would break his spirit and kill him. And then Mel would live have to with that. I couldn't do it. I'd shoot myself first.