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Le Pen: Auschwitz didn't have gas chambers
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Published: 25.04.08, 23:32
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1. sick sick.
Afrin ,   USA   (04.26.08)
Whether it's a French right winger or a Serb denying what we it's obvious it's beyond contempt. But they should still be able to say it as free speech is important.
2. Time to do aliah....
Ariel ,   Brazil   (04.26.08)
French jews should have made aliah a long time ago...
3. another crackpot heard from.
debra ,   usa   (04.26.08)
4. Auischwitz
Robbins Mitchell ,   Houston,Texas USA   (04.26.08)
Mssr Le Pen seems to be missing the point entirely here....the salient issue is not whether or not there were ovens or gas chambers at Auschwitz....the question is what was the function of the I G Farben plant there?....Auswchitz was built as an adjunct to the plant itself....to provide a cheap and continuous supply of slave labor for the plant.....the ostensible purpose of which was to produce BUNA....a polymer which was a type of synthetic rubber for the Nazi war machine...only one problem here though....it never turned out one bit of BUNA the entire time it operated....so what was all that slave labor being used for?....well,Auschwitz is in an interesting location....close to the "Three Corners" area where Polish Silesia,Germany,and Sudetenland Czechoslovakia come together....and,not coincidentally,Sudetenland contains some of the richest uranium ore fields in the world.... A coal mine was nearby and three rivers converged to provide a vital requirement, a large source of water. Together with these three rivers, the Reich railroad and autobahn afforded excellent transportation to and from the area. These were not decisive advantages, however, over the Norwegian site that was also under consideration for the plant by I G Farben... But the Silesian location had one advantage that was overwhelming:The promise of an inexhaustible supply of slave labor was an attraction that could not be resisted....the huge synthetic rubber plant was completed, after 300,000 concentration camp workers had passed through the corporations construction mills. 25,000 of these inmates were simply and cruelly worked to death from exhaustion. The plants themselves were nothing less than gigantic. So gigantic, in fact, that "they used more electricity than the entire city of Berlin."... During the war crimes tribunals, however, it was not this gruesome catalogue of facts about the plant that puzzled the Allied prosecutors. What puzzled them was that, in spite of such an enormous investment of lives, money, and material, "not a single pound of Buna was ever produced"9 The Farben directors and managers in the docks were almost obsessively insistent on this point. More electricity than the entire city of Berlin - the eighth largest in the world at that time - to produce absolutely nothing? ....well not exactly 'nothing'....they were refining uranium ore to separate the isotopes to produce bomb grade U-235.....some of which eventually found its way into the Manhattan Project plant at Oak Ridge ,Tennessee when a shipment of uranium oxide (over 500 kg of it..77% pure) was intercepted right after Germany surrendered when the XB class submarine U-234, which was transporting it to Japan, surrendered to the US Navy off of Portsmouth,NH...all those Jews who died at Auschwitz did so in order to provide us the means to eventually defeat Japan without having to invade the home islands....they did not die in vain
5. Anti-Semitism
Robert Bernier ,   Tel Aviv   (04.26.08)
Anti-Semitism, the hate of Jews, is a phenomenon on which much has been said and written.Anti-Semitism doesn’t even need Jews in order to prosper (It existed in Japan although there were no Jews living in Japan). Anti-Semitism is one of the ugliest defect in human kind and it provokes the appearance of the most primitive and bestial instinct in human nature. If Le Pen will not repeat that "no Jews were gassed or burned at Nazi death camps" he will be forgoten and will disappear from the French political environment within a few month - and he knows that. Le Pen is not important, he is only a stupid antisemite clown. Nowadays, anti-Semitism is carried, supported and promoted by Islam. If one wants to fight anti-Semitism one has to oppose the sermons and incitements preached in the Mosques against Jews. We have to fight anti-Semitism as explained at : http://xrl.us/bjt95
6. Looks like..
Someone ,   Curious   (04.26.08)
It looks to me like freedom of speech down the drain! This guy is charged for saying stuff which insult a few hundred million europeans, and the 4 or-so million jews, but the insult of 1.4 billion muslims is nothing to worry about. Freedom of speech should be told how it is - it is allowed against some people but not others.
7. What happened to all the families?
vered ,   israel   (04.26.08)
What happened to all the relatives of holocaust survivors? Was their existence a myth too? We have letters, birth certificates, and what about the archives that have just been opened to the public? How is this man even able to drum up an audience?
8. to #2
surething ,   u.s.   (04.26.08)
Sure, so that now that Olmert is giving away the Golan, Hizballah can stand on top of the mountain side and sniper shoot at us. Or French jews making aliyah will have to wonder each time they take a drink if their water is poisoned. No thanks.
9. Le Putz
Michael Ezrachi ,   St. Louis, USA   (04.26.08)
I'm sure, Obama and Carter would like Le Pen.
10. to #6 nothing curious
Marcelo ,   Frankfurt   (04.26.08)
there was no holocoust against muslims except with the expulsion in 1492 from Spain. There is a huge difference in saying muslis should accept civil laws in every country and not only sharia and denying the holocoust as it was...muslims are very busy in washing eurabians heads to track what a nazi says....
11. #4 the other side of the story
observer   (04.26.08)
The Zionists discovered that the French were giving passports to a few Nazi scientists and relocating them in North Africa. Their curiosity aroused, the Zionists tagged along and discovered that the French were building a massive testing range for atomic, biological, and chemical weapons in its colony. It was a hideous place. The brutal Nazi experiments on human beings at Auschwitz had produced a bewildering series of poisons. The French had captured German stocks of Tabun, Sarin, and even more toxic nerve gases, which could kill on skin contact. In addition the Germans had developed new and more virulent strains of anthrax, typhus, cholera, malaria and plague. The French were secretly testing the Nazi formulas and compounds on farm animals and then building a secret network of factories and research institutes to carry on the work that Hitler had started. This was, of course, a flagrant violation of France's public promise to shun chemical and biological warfare. Seymour Hersh knew only that the French had conducted atomic experiments at a secret base in North Africa. He did not know that the base at Beni Ounif was also the heart of de Gaulle's effort to manufacture the same chemical and bacteriological substances that the Nazis had developed in their human experiments at Auschwitz and elsewhere. The Israelis knew. They had penetrated the base from the outset and were using the germ warfare scandal to blackmail their way into the heart of the French illegal weapons program. France and West Germany were blackmailed into supporting the development of the Israeli atom bomb. After 1967, the French terminated all weapons support for Israel in a fawning attempt to please the Arab oil kingdoms. Despite the ban, the Israelis were able to convince the French contractors to finish their work on the nuclear weapons project.
12. To #6
Sabashimon ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (04.26.08)
The difference, in case you haven't noticed, between offending Jews and offending muslims is that when offended, Jews don't take to the streets burning and killing. Think about it.
13. the diffrence- num 6
to num 6 ,   israel   (04.26.08)
I think the diffrence is that la pen is using deciet in order to reach a political end. while anti muslim sentiment is due to crimes agains humanety and backward thinking of muslims using religion has an excuse. I also feel strong anti jewish sentiment when i hear rabbies saying stupid things or chasing after money. sorry for spelling mistakes
14. Le Pen - French political Clown
Menahem ,   Paris   (04.26.08)
During all the long of his life Le Pen was a " gros con" and in his next grave he will stay for eternity a " gros con" in 2002 for the presidential élections his score was 18% against Chirac and Jospin in June 2007, few after Sarkozy élection, for the " élections législatives" his score was one of the most unhappy with less than 3% his biggest mistake was to try to obtain the Muslim votes by a call to the french muslim communauty his supporters don't understand this comportement in opposition with his traditional anti muslim and anti jews way of behaviour an important part of his supporters vote for Sarkozy Le Pen is really a " pauvre con"
15. to 6
tFighterPilot   (04.26.08)
First of all, there are 12 millions Jews around the world. Secondly do you see Jews burning the French flag? Or burning Le Pen's dolls? The Arabs make antisemitic cartoons was movies all the time, do you even hear about it?
16. HISTORY REVISED
dp ,   sf, usa   (04.26.08)
history is written by the winners, don't let the looser rewrite it
17. Free Speech
Matthew Dickinson ,   Duluth, GA. USA   (04.26.08)
Why should you be fined for expressing your opinion? Does his opinions cause harm to others? Why do Jews care if a gentile doesn't believe that a lot of their ancestors died in World War II? It makes me think they have a lot to hide.
18. Sad to be old AND stupid.
Gideon Reader   (04.26.08)
LePutz rambles on, proving to the entire micro world that he inhabits that it is possible for a single person to live, age and not learn a single thing from that experience. How incredible, how sad for the man. A putz in his youth. A putz in his prime(such as it was) and in what should be his golden years, tarnished brass. Corroded by his own bile and blatant stupidity. If only he would had had a glass of wine. Smoked a cigar and played a little chess with a jewish contemporary. How he could have grown. Wait. That person; the Jew, died after being confined to the Velodrome and then deported by the Vichy government. They were all in the "Resistance" and fought the Bosche you know.
19. That's reassuring:
Red Temple ,   White Mtns.   (04.26.08)
MJS said it hoped "the courts will not let such remarks go unpunished."
20. Is Le Pen suffering from senile dementia?
Anthony David Marks ,   Israel   (04.26.08)
Le Pen and others like him are either senile or in need of psychiatric treatment. Alternatively, perhaps the man loves being a trouble maker and receiving much sought after publicity. I once had a Hungarian Jewish friend who said, "I don't care what people say about me as long as they talk about me."
21. He's meeting with Jimmy Carter next week.....
Best israeli blog at ,   Israellycool.com   (04.27.08)
22. #17 mathew
boxley ,   atl usa   (04.27.08)
I spend a lot of time trying to convince people that living in georgia there is not a lot of ignorant crackers. Could you please list your hometown as new york instead?
23. cracker?
Matthew Dickinson ,   New York, USA   (04.27.08)
Why do you call me a cracker?
24. Freedom of speech
Bogdan ,   Moscow, Russia   (04.27.08)
Let him speak his mind BUT don't offer him an entire article in every god damn newspaper, it's exactly what Le Pen was expecting. As long as the man doesn't have access to government and mass media, he is a nobody. Please don't publish Le Pen statements anymore. Thanks.
25. #11. Seymour Hersh said so? Ha! Ha! Ha!
Jake   (04.29.08)
That man is the journalistic joke of the century. A veritable kook! A discredited hack! And that is your primary reference for all that drivel you wrote? You've got serious problems, buddy.
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