Port Vila, Vanuatu (PressExposure) May 13, 2010 -- When the Allied Forces entered the Nazi death camps of World War II, President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued an order for as many films and photographs of the conditions, to be taken as possible. He also demanded that the local German population be taken to the camps to see the horror for themselves.
Eisenhower said it was vital to collect proof, films and eye-witness testimonies, for he strongly believed the day would come when "Someone would say that 6 million Jews were not killed."
Now England has erased all reference to the Holocaust from the British School curriculum, 60 years after the horrifying events, because it was an affront to the Muslim population's belief that the Holocaust was no more than a myth.
In 2005, Nahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, openly called the Nazi Holocaust a European Jewry 'myth', as he stepped up his anti-Israel rhetoric.
The foreign minister of Germany cautioned that the remarks could influence negotiations with Iran over its nuclear programme, as he criticized Ahmadinejad's comments as "shocking and unacceptable".
The European Union renewed its censure of Ahmadinejad's position, saying it had no place in civilized political debate.
European and Iranian Holocaust deniers enjoy rock star status in Iran and the Arab world. Robert Faurisson, known as 'The Dean of Deniers' and the longest standing opponent to the Holocaust, first rebuffed accounts of the gas chambers in the 1970's.
He claimed they were only used to incinerate bodies of people who were already dead, out of concern for the spread of disease and infection in the area.
English writer of thirty books, David Irving, specializing in the military history of World War II, served an eleven month prison sentence in 2006. He had attempted, unsuccessfully in 1996, to bring a libel case against the American Historian, Deborah Lipstadt and Penguine Books. The court ruled that Irving was an active Holocaust denier, racist and antisemite, 'who associates with right-wing extremists who supports neo-Nazism' and that he had for his own ideological objectives diligently misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence.
In 2009 an uproar erupted in the Vatican, which momentarily closed Our Lady of Corredentora catholic seminary, Buenos Aires, over anti-holocaust comments made by a British priest, Bishop Williamson. Some German and Austrian clerics, plus angry members of the French church, shocked by Williamson's claim that "only" 300,000 Jews had been murdered by the Nazis, made their objections clear.
In the beginning, the deniers were unwilling to openly claim that mass killings had not taken place - they were not bold enough. Instead, they tried to "minimize the number of victims, to deny the existence of an overall plan, to place responsibility on individuals among the German people, and the like." However, over the years they have become more focused, solidified and determined to propel their opinions into the mainstream.
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