Posted on 04/25/2008 9:07:30 PM PDT by HAL9000
Le Pen: Auschwitz didn't have gas chambers
Extreme right-wing leader repeats claim that no Jews were gassed or burned at Nazi death camps, says Auschwitz inmates worked as laborers for factory
Far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen sparked a chorus of outrage in France on Friday by repeating an incendiary claim that the Nazi gas chambers were a "detail of history."
Anti-racism and Jewish groups threatened immediate legal action against the National Front chief - who already holds several similar convictions - after he made the comments in a magazine interview.
"I said the gas chambers were a detail of the history of World War II: that, to me, seems so obvious," the 79-year-old Le Pen told Bretons magazine.
Le Pen was fined 1.2 million francs ($290,000) for making the initial remarks in a radio interview in 1987.
When the Bretons journalist told him that the Nazis "deported people to camps simply to kill them," Le Pen replied: "But that is what you believe. I don't feel obliged to adhere to that view."
"I observe that in Auschwitz there was the IG Farben factory, there were 80,000 laborers working there. As far as I know they were not gassed, anyway, nor burned."
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LucyT, I know what you went through. I lived in Germany right after the war. I went to both Auschwitz and Dachau.....before they were “cleaned up”. The horrors I saw still haunt me. They will forever. I believe my experiences there helped form me into the rather fierce patriot that I am today.
This “right winger” is also pro-moslem.
It’s only a few years before Le Pen’s pandering to Muslims becomes official.
Sarkozy would have to renouce the traitor De Gaulle, who started the Eurabia project. Sarkozy cannot do that. Not only would he be declairing war on the entire Al-Frankistani elite, but he would have to fight his own party. The UMP was founded by the merger of the UDF with Rally for the Republic, the de Gaullist movement.
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