Posted on 12/15/2004 11:22:09 PM PST by yonif
(IsraelNN.com) A former senior aide to talk show host and one-time presidential candidate Pat Buchanan spoke at a meeting of Holocaust-deniers earlier this year, according to this years annual report on Holocaust-denial activity around the world.
The year-end report, Holocaust Denial: A Global Survey - 2004, has been issued by The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, which is located on the campus of Gratz College, near Philadelphia. The reports co-authors are Holocaust scholars Dr. Alex Grobman (author of a recent book on Holocaust denial) and Dr. Rafael Medoff (director of the Wyman Institute).
(The complete text of the Wyman Institutes report may be viewed on the Wyman Institutes website).
The report notes that Peter Gemma, a senior staff member of Pat Buchanans 2000 presidential campaign, spoke at a February 19, 2004 meeting in Virginia of the Institute for Historical Review, the leading Holocaust-denial organization in the United States. Gemma introduced the evenings keynote speaker, IHR director Mark Weber.
The association of a former Buchanan aide with Holocaust-deniers is particularly noteworthy in view of Buchanans own troubling positions concerning Hitler and the Holocaust. He has written that 850,000 Jews could not have been gassed in Treblinka because diesel engines do not emit enough carbon dioxide to kill anybody; he spoke out on behalf of accused Nazi war criminals Karl Linnas and Arthur Rudolph; he wrote columns defending Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk; he described Hitler as an individual of great courage; and he mocked Holocaust survivors memories as group fantasies of martyrdom and heroics. (The New Republic, Oct.15 and Oct.22, 1990) In his 1999 book, A Republic, Not an Empire, Buchanan argued that the U.S. should not have gone to war against Nazi Germany.
Other highlights of this years report:
* Holocaust-deniers in the United States continued their efforts to gain a measure of respectability in 2004, and benefited from the willingness of several individuals of prominence to associate with them. In addition to the aforementioned Peter Gemma, a newsletter edited by pundit Alexander Cockburn defended imprisoned Holocaust-denier Ernst Zundel. Also, Hutton Gibson again publicly denied the Holocaust, while his son, actor Mel Gibson, declined to clearly dissociate himself from his fathers views.
* Some Arab governments continued to actively promote Holocaust-denial in 2004, and a Holocaust-denier emerged as the leading candidate for chairmanship of the Palestinian Authority.
* A number of Western governments and other institutions took important steps against Holocaust-deniers. The Canadian government sought to deport Ernst Zundel; the government of New Zealand denied entry to David Irving; the French government brought charges against Bruno Gollnisch; Harvard University returned a gift from an Arab leader who promoted Holocaust-denial; and The Nation magazine said it would no longer accept advertisements from Holocaust-deniers. Most notably, U.S. intervention brought about the first-ever public disavowal of Holocaust-denial by an Egyptian government official.
Re:Devils advocate here. Hell, I can't spell Aushitz, or ... But, 6 million Jews were put to death and their remains were cremated and nothing was left but their shoes? The notion that how many BTU to consume a corpse times number of corpses divided by number of available crematoria...Lets not let reality impair...there is a showa factor here...lets not...
No, it looks like Schadenfruede
Have I missed anything?
Yes. You didn't mention that you are an ass.
Or Shabbat. I guess some of them think people don't scroll back through a days worth of comments.
I put 50 grains of black powder in the muzzle, ram patch and .50 cal (.495)ball down a 36" barrel, prime the pan with ffff powder then fire...I don't care what the muzzle velocity is, I just want it to hit my target.
I have lived in Europe, I have seen the existing camps, you can still feel death lingering in them. Though most of the death camps were not in Germany, but in most eastern and southern countries bordering GE, I visited a few around Bremmergarten and Munich. They were near by, I don't remember thier names. What a sad place. The images are seared in my mind, I was only 11 when I saw them. my Grandfather had to explain to me what the places were.
Those who refuse to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it.
I notice you chose to ignore SJackson's proof of Pat's past Holocaust denial.
Well...I meant directly.
Re: The major death camps were located in Poland, which was in Soviet occupied territory. General Patton did up up with the idea that German's should be shown (and transported if need be) to the local concentration camps.
Following a report of a German mayor and his wife hanging themselves after such a viewing, Patton stated there was hope for the German people.
My own mother, now 83, was arrested for not joining the party and placed in a Krup work camp. (light security and she escaped). But she never found out what happened to her father after the war. (He worked in the coal mines and was a known communist.) So, thanks, for reminding everyone it wasn't just the Jews who were exterminated.
However, as far as denial, my aunt was a Nazi youth and denies to this day any of the atrocities were attributed to Hitler.
For the sake of historical accuracy, some camps were classed as "arbiter lager's", and were tied to the production of various war items including the V1 and V2 weapons. Of course the Nazi's had the food ration calculated to extract the most work for the least calories, with death of the poor workers being a result. The major camps that existed only for the murder of "undesirables" were in Poland. I thought it was brilliant on Patton's part to expose the German citizenry to "kulture of the Reich". There are revisionists who have agendas that don't include the truth. Shame on them.
Don't ever Freep mail me again.
I think that's an excellent point. It's unfortunate that Buchanan had developed so much name recognition as a Republican spokesman before he finally stomped off in pique.
He was referring to you as a revisionist in his #95, but of course, you were too blinded to see that.. What a maroon, and it would have fitting if your direct ancestors have been killed in one of those camps. You wouldn't be around.
Well, you're right, but in my hometown, people don't care about economic issues, only social ones. It took college to expand my political worldview.
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