For many years now, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been speaking to Germany: in a long letter to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in two interviews with the German weekly Der Spiegel, and in passing remarks in numerous speeches and press conferences. He has been speaking to Germany in terms that Americans might fail to recognize, but that will be extremely familiar to his intended audience: namely, in the classical terms of German revisionism. Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust denial is just one side of this revisionism. The other side consists of the suggestion that Germany itself was somehow a victim of the Second World War, or at least of “unjust” post-war arrangements, and that the victorious Allied powers — first and foremost the United States — are the real “oppressors.”
While suppressing the most overt Holocaust denial from his speech to the UN Conference on Racism in Geneva, Ahmadinejad gave ample space to this second classical theme of post-WWII revisionism. Speaking of the two world wars, he said: “If one had learned something from the occupations and horror of those wars, then there would have been a ray of hope for the future. But the victorious powers declared themselves to be the conquerors of the world, while ignoring or treading upon the rights of other nations by the imposition of oppressive laws and international arrangements.”
Below is a partial translation of the comments to an extract from Ahmadinejad’s speech that was posted on YouTube with a German voice-over. The extract was originally broadcast on Germany’s Phoenix TV and was followed by a Phoenix report on the protests against the speech. Although only a partial translation, I have not made a point of selecting the anti-Semitic entries. Anti-Semitism is rampant in the discussion, as too is anti-Americanism. At least at the outset, the approval for Ahmadinejad was overwhelming and critics were few and far between. The ratio would change somewhat after the German journalist Henryk Broder drew attention to the forum in a post titled “A Lunatic is Never Alone” on the popular “pro-American,” “pro-Israel” Achse des Gutens (Axis of Good) blog. I have given the last word in my translation to two of the critical voices.
The ample evidence of Holocaust denial among the YouTube comments is particularly notable in the German context. As an apparent “joke,” one commenter calls himself “Holoshoa.” Another refers nonchalantly to the “Holohoax.” A third points to an online collection of denial videos: “for those who want to know more about the alleged [angeblichen] Holocaust.” “Matters are very simple,” the commenter adds, “Whoever claims things that are impossible is lying!” (The last comment is not included below.) Holocaust denial is in fact illegal in Germany. The German neo-Nazi Horst Mahler has already been convicted twice this year for denial-related crimes. He faces nearly 11 years in prison as a result of the two convictions. The enthusiasm for denial in the anonymous YouTube forum suggests what some researchers, in any case, have long suspected: that Germany’s criminalization of the public expression of Holocaust denial has only served to push the embarrassing phenomenon into the private sphere.
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KraftTakt
Good that Ahmadinejad throws a spanner in the Jews’ works! It is also interesting that the reporter mentions that it was Jewish groups that interrupted the speech. They can get away with anything.
KraftTakt
The concept of racism was invented by the Jew Trotsky as a means of combat for the Communists. If you pay attention, it’s also very striking that racism is always a matter of the oppression of Jews and Blacks. Here too you see how the African bushmen present their “folklore” [the Phoenix report includes scenes of an African dance group]. But, of course, you don’t see any European folk dance groups (…).
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VMTV
Ahmadinejad tells it like it is.
However, I find that in the Middle East there are no good guys.
The Muslims and the Jews are both religious fanatics that are stuck in the Middle Ages.
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funrunkel
All the ziocrats have first to get off their high horses.
holoshoa
Thank you, Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad!
Alex from the Central Council of Germans in Hannover
[“Central Council of Germans” is a play on the Central Council of Jews of Germany, a semi-official institution that is a magnet for anti-Semitic resentments in Germany.]
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DosensuPPe90
Ahmadinejad is absolutely right!!!
All he is doing is telling the truth!
funrunkel
Ach ma die Nedschad [Ahmadinejad] is a populist, he’s right, but his domestic policies display certain structural deficits. He should establish a free [freiheitliches] caliphate. Otherwise, I like him. He has a totally different perspective: also on the Holo-hoax(…)
Praetorianer1985
Yet again, typical. They hold a summit against racism. But as soon as someone attacks their holy cow Israel, they don’t want to hear anything.
Down with the Zionists!
Down with the NWO [New World Order]!
Malaysia1980
Hitler only six years, they have been killing for 51 years…! Down with them!
Malaysia1980
61 years
tobijjah66
the eternal Jew so long as the world continues to exist, for so long there will be nations that will hate Israel and the Jews and Zionism …
Apocalypse Now it’s time …
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sera0001
Up to now, he has always said the truth but no one admits that he is right. since that doesn’t fit at all in their sick Satanist and Zionist system and association. I’d really like to know which countries have not gone [to the conference]. Just like the other ZioNAZIS. The same schema is playing itself out like with Saddam. (…)
KingHaSSSan88
60 years made by “Israel” [in English in the original]
A foreign minister Lieberman who says that one has to wipe out all the Arabs, to throw them out of their countries; even though he himself comes form Moldavia and first immigrated to “Israel” when he was 25 etc.
And if anyone tries to do anything against it he gets boycotted.
ZIONAZIS ARE FASCISTS
Malaysia1980
One day there won’t be any more…
BitOnkel
What are the U.S. bases in Germany other than centers of occupation? Al Gore “Germany is a protectorate of the U.S.A.” (…)
BitOnkel
I have to correct myself. The citation does not come from Al Gore, but from kiesinger [sic] “Germany is still not sovereign, but rather “de facto a protectorate of the U.S.A.”
or
It [Germany] is under the tyranny of US-imperialism, it is a “vassal-state that is required to pay tribute” (Zbigniew Brzezinski).
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KraftTakt
natvan.com /who-rules-america/
KraftTakt
Jewish Bank Chiefs:
Paul Wolfowitz: World Bank.
Strauss-Kahn: International Monetary Fund.
Paul Bernanke (previously Alan Greenspan): American Federal Reserve
KraftTakt
Jewish Neocons:
Norman Podhoretz, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Nicholas Sarkozy, Elliot Abrams, Kenneth Adelman, William Kristol, Douglas Feith, David Wurmser, Henry Kissinger, Dov Zakheim, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, David Frum (inventor of the Axis of Evil), Joshua Bolton, Michael Chertoff, Michael Mukasey.
KraftTakt
The Jewish Hollywood actress Rachel Weisz explained in 2001:
“Jews rule Hollywood.(…)”
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sera0001
“Economic crises have been produced by us for the goyim by no other means than the withdrawal of money from circulation.” — Protocols of Zion
rense.com
Talmud:
Gentiles are outside the protection of the law and God has “exposed their money to Israel.” — Baba Kamma 37b”
“If a Jew is tempted to do evil he should go to a city where he is
not known and do the evil there” — Moed Kattan 17a
“Non-Jews are Not Human. Only Jews are human (“Only ye are designated men”) — Baba Mezia 114a-114b
[Above all in English in the original]
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Isostar7582
Always Israel — Always Israel!
How can it be that a mini-wannabe bought country plays such a role!
Bombing entire city neighborhoods and killing thousands of civilians — just because a couple of firecrackers fly over the wall into their country! The poor Jewish people — I can’t hear it anymore! Typical that America kisses their asses and Germany is next in line! You can see how the Jews have such a powerful influence on the western world. Jews=Money=Power!
BerlinSoldier25
Ahmadinejad is right and all the decent people who got up [and left] probably could not stand their own misdeeds. Super.
BerlinSoldier25
The real criminals are in Washington/London/Tel Aviv. Out of NAto/UN/EU(SU)!
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JuPfl
My goodness! In a flash, the crazed lunatic gathers a whole crowd of other lunatics around him: Nazis, total morons and sociopaths. The new “Adolf” as the guiding light for Anti-Semites, Anti-Zionists, America-haters and Israel-haters (…).
Pew!
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loup030
Given the intolerable stupidity of the comments posted here, one cannot help saying something stupid oneself: when one reads all the Jew-hatred collected here, one has to think that it was a big mistake on the part of the allies not to have established the French-Polish border on the Weser [river in western Germany] in 1945. One is deeply ashamed to share one’s language and one’s country with such a pack of anti-Semites. Go to Tehran, you belong there.
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