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France - Le Pen: Auschwitz didn't have gas chambers
Agence France-Presse (excerpt) ^ | April 25, 2008

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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: auschwitz; france; godsgravesglyphs; holocaust; jeanmarielepen; lepen; nazis; nutjob
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To: ApplegateRanch
I might be mistaken, but didn't Hitler believe that Jooooo-bone bread was an aphrodisiac, and ordered the SS to eat a loaf a day, to keep up their rape quotas?
21 posted on 04/25/2008 10:48:16 PM PDT by doc1019 (Acts 16:31, Romans 10:13 ... nuff said.)
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To: HAL9000

What a sad and pathetic man. Where is Sarkozy? If LePen is truly a rightist, then this is an opportunity for Sarkozy to purge France of its traditional anti-semitism and to denounce something that can be used by Muslim fanatics in France. But most of all, to do something that is so obviously the right thing.


22 posted on 04/25/2008 10:51:24 PM PDT by TheThinker (Capitalism is the natural result of a democratic government.)
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To: doc1019
I might be mistaken, but didn't Hitler believe that Jooooo-bone bread was an aphrodisiac, and ordered the SS to eat a loaf a day, to keep up their rape quotas?
23 posted on 04/25/2008 10:51:31 PM PDT by doc1019 (Acts 16:31, Romans 10:13 ... nuff said.)
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To: doc1019
I might be mistaken, but didn't Hitler believe that Jooooo-bone bread was an aphrodisiac, and ordered the SS to eat a loaf a day, to keep up their rape quotas?

First I have ever heard of this … not that I would put it past ol’ Hitler, just can’t believe that a Jew hating country and ideology that was the Third Reich, would eat anything that was Jewish, especially their burnt (cooked) flesh.

Try long enough and I will get it right. Sorry.

24 posted on 04/25/2008 10:53:29 PM PDT by doc1019 (Acts 16:31, Romans 10:13 ... nuff said.)
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To: HAL9000
First, Le Pen is not right wing, in the American sense. Anyone who is frustrated by constant references to fascists being right wing should read Jonah Goldberg's fantastic book Liberal Fascism. I can't recommend it enough.

Second, it is one of the great tragedies of our time that the socialist elites who run Europe fail to understand that by failing to fight Islamic fascism, they open the door to classical fascism, which the masses will turn to in desperation.

25 posted on 04/25/2008 11:41:41 PM PDT by TheWasteLand
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To: HAL9000
They don't come any stupider than Le Pen. Salonika's great reservoir of Jewry died at Auschwitz and Birkenau.
26 posted on 04/26/2008 1:36:53 AM PDT by carton253 (www.headquartersanv.blogspot.com -- for conversations about the Army of Northern Virginia.)
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To: The Spirit Of Allegiance

“...those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path.”

A profound thought that we should all keep in mind.


27 posted on 04/26/2008 2:15:53 AM PDT by onguard
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To: Hi Heels

Hear,hear!


28 posted on 04/26/2008 4:40:07 AM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Defeat liberalism, its the right thing to do for America.)
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To: HiJinx
I’ve been to Dachau. Those weren’t shower rooms I saw...

I've been there myself.The showers were there,but were never put into use before the liberation of the camp.I got into an argument with someone over this,until I looked it up in the picture book I had bought in the museum and showed him the paragraph that explained this.

29 posted on 04/26/2008 4:40:47 AM PDT by Uncle Meat
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To: HAL9000

France - Le Pen:

1) Auschwitz didn’t have gas chambers
2) the french are a world power
3) the french have showers but choose NOT to use them

at least one of these statements is true!!!!


30 posted on 04/26/2008 5:25:35 AM PDT by nyyankeefan
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To: doc1019

There was a German reenactment [shot in the actual villa, but HBO did a movie, “Conspiracy”, with a top notch cast: Kenneth Branaugh as Heydrich, Stanley Tucci as Eichmann, Colin Firth as Wilhem Stuckart... Excellent job.


31 posted on 04/26/2008 6:40:02 AM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: LucyT

that makes me dizzy to think about....that they still have those items is amazing


32 posted on 04/26/2008 7:44:31 AM PDT by porter_knorr
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To: HAL9000
Le Pen: "I observe that in Auschwitz there was the IG Farben factory, where there were 80,000 laborers working there. As far as I know they were not gassed, anyway, nor burned."

Le Pen is too idiotic to realize that the purpose of the IG Farben factory at Auschwitz was to manufacture the lethal Zyklon B gas that was used strictly for the purpose of mass killing. Those "laborers" working at the "factory" were slaves used to help kill their fellow camp inmates. And the "laborers" would generally be sent to the gas chmbers themselves after they became too ill or disabled to work in the "factory."

33 posted on 04/26/2008 10:43:25 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: porter_knorr; HAL9000; nw_arizona_granny; penowa; justiceseeker93; potlatch; george76; ...

When I first saw the hair and shoes, seriously I went into shock; it was as if a horse had kicked me in the stomach.

In the nearby village prior to arriving, I bought a bouquet of red roses with the idea of placing them ‘somewhere.’ I left them on a crematorium.

Setting just inside a shower room was a can with a paper label of what may have been cyclon B. Presumably, it was there for effect. It certainly affected me.

The horror and profound sadness of that day is etched in my memory forever.


34 posted on 04/26/2008 10:43:57 AM PDT by LucyT
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To: LucyT

My father went to see Schindler’s List by himself in a movie theater. When it came to the scene where the Jews’ belongings were all sorted in the town square, shoes here, jewelry there, glasses over there, into piles, my father walked out of the theater.

He told us, “I saw it the first time” (when he was a seven-year-old child).


35 posted on 04/26/2008 10:52:50 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: ml/nj; firebrand; rmlew; dennisw; juliej; OldFriend; montag813; SJackson; pabianice; ...

Ping!


36 posted on 04/26/2008 11:00:45 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: justiceseeker93
Zyklon B is the proper spelling, my misspelling was found when I checked out the link at #3, as I couldn't remember how to spell it.
37 posted on 04/26/2008 11:08:45 AM PDT by LucyT
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To: B-Chan
Why, oh, why does the Right in France choose to be associated with anti-semitic trash like this?

The most parsimonious explanation would be that many of them find his views on such matters congenial, or at best inconsequential.

38 posted on 04/26/2008 11:19:12 AM PDT by untenured
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To: Yaelle

Thanks, Yaelle. Poor little boy having to live with those memories all his life. I can understand him walking out of the theatre. I wouldn’t see the movie; I wouldn’t visit a death camp again. For tragedies in life, it’s better to not look back...


39 posted on 04/26/2008 11:23:06 AM PDT by LucyT
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To: LucyT; devolve; ntnychik; PhilDragoo; dixiechick2000; MeekOneGOP; FARS; All
I made something about the Holocaust for you;


40 posted on 04/26/2008 1:19:47 PM PDT by potlatch
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