wasn't real; that it never really happened? It seems like I heard that on the news or something once recently, but I haven't really heard anything else about it. I also just kinda caught the tail-end of the story.
If anyone has any information on this story, or somewhere where I can read about it, could you give me that information?
Also, what are your views on this story? Where is he getting that from?
2006-12-22 05:46:19 · 17 answers · asked by Aimee 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
To Blunt Honesty: I would have done my research on it myself, but I didnt know anything about it because I only caught the last of the story. lol I didnt know names or places or anything. That's why I asked the question. =)
2006-12-22 05:55:41 · update #1
The Iranian effort to mount a Holocaust denial campaign is linked with the Israeli-Palestinian crisis.
By Daniel Schorr
WASHINGTON
Call it a community of hate. Sixty-seven delegates from 30 countries gathered in Tehran last week for a Holocaust-denial conference hosted by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
I know a little about the Holocaust, having visited the lakeside mansion in Berlin where the Wannsee Conference in 1942 drew up the master plan with Adolph Eichmann for the extinction of the Jews of Europe. In the Wannsee mansion are housed documents that make mass murder seem like a public-works project requiring so many trains and so many ovens.
And I spent some time in Auschwitz in 1959 making a documentary for CBS. I reported, "This was the greatest death factory ever devised." And I showed the gas chambers where murder was efficiently processed at an astounding rate. I showed the stagnant ponds, where if you ran your hands over the bottom, you picked up human ashes and fragments of bone.
So you will understand if I'm not entirely disinterested when I read that people such as former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke joins French, Canadian, Swiss, Austrian, and other Holocaust skeptics. Many peddled the idea that the mass murder was simply a myth.
The two-day conference was part of Iran's anti-Israel campaign. But maybe the conference served one useful purpose in that it forced world leaders to renew their humanist credentials. European Union Commissioner Franco Frattini said, "anti-Semitism has no place in Europe." The incoming secretary-general of the United Nations, Ban Ki Moon, told Iran it was "unacceptable" to deny the Holocaust. British Prime Minister Tony Blair called the conference "shocking beyond belief." And the White House called it "an affront to the entire civilized world."
The Iranian effort to mount a Holocaust denial campaign is linked with the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. Mr. Ahmadinejad calls for the extinction of Israel in the same speeches in which he denies the Holocaust. It seems inconceivable that anyone today would go through the charade of wanting to research this historic wrong. But, we live in the age of the inconceivable.
• Daniel Schorr is a senior news analyst at National Public Radio.
2006-12-22 05:50:17 · answer #1 · answered by Hatikvah 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There was an entire congregation of people in Tehran debating the Holocaust.
My view is that it happened and it was horrific. I get that from pictures and survivor stories. These "deniers" are motivated by white supremacy and trying to refute the legitimacy of Israel.
Read up on Israel and you will get some great info. Search the NY Times or Yahoo News for more info on the Conference.
2006-12-22 05:49:51 · answer #2 · answered by Phoenix, Wise Guru 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
you've witnessed between the rarest issues in nature, 2 IT adult males sparring over turf. the 2d guy has received the right to mate with some thing else of the herd, once someone shows him how. in case you seem, you may see him status on the reproduction gadget, pounding his chest and whooping.
2016-12-01 02:20:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you referring to the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?
The man is a fanatic, and if he weren't the president of Iran he world only be worth ignoring. As it is, I think he's trying to stir the pot and get a lot of people either rallying behind him (Middle East hardliners) or against him (Europe and America). Either way, he wins. Google his name on CNN and you'll find plenty.
Me? I despise Holocaust deniers. My Grandfather was one of the soldiers who liberated Dachau, and what he found there gave him nightmares for life. He passed his memories on to me, and I get floored every time I hear one of these knuckle-draggers spout off their idiocy.
2006-12-22 05:57:24 · answer #4 · answered by Scott M 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A LOT of idiots say that! It makes me sick. To think that someone can SEE the films and pictures and hear the survivors talk about the horrors they've endured, and try to say it never happened!
It takes a sick and twisted mind to discount that kind of suffering towards humanity!
2006-12-22 05:49:53 · answer #5 · answered by lookn2cjc 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
They say it doesn't happen because either they want it to happen again and are on H.i.t.l.e.r's side, or because they simply want to erase it from memory. They can't believe that humans could be so cruel. Guess what? We can be. You have plenty of examples. just look in history books not written by Americans.
2006-12-22 05:49:56 · answer #6 · answered by rave_moonstone 1 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, I read about that! He was in prison for denying the Holocaust. He vows to never stop denying it. He's also calling for a boycott of "Austrian & German historians" until they revise their history to reflect his views.
Here's the story on Yahoo: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061222/en_afp/austriabritainwwii_061222172215
It was also at http://CNN.com
2006-12-22 05:47:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
lol id say, tell it to the people who witnessed it...
i cant believe they put him in prison, *shrug*, there are groups of people that preach against America while they live in it, they should go to prison more then that guy should. perhaps that guy should have a psychological test done, to see if he blocked it out or wha this deal is.
2006-12-22 05:47:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Some people have always denied it. A lot of present day Nazi partitarians denounce it.
2006-12-22 05:49:03 · answer #9 · answered by bobthebuilder 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why don't you do an internet seach on it? There was lots of coverage on this in the last few weeks.
2006-12-22 05:51:12 · answer #10 · answered by Blunt Honesty 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋