Paper says Helmut Kohl agrees with Ahmadinejad on Holocaust

[ECH1969]

Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl reportedly told Iranian businessmen in Germany that he agreed with statements by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the Holocaust was a “myth”, the semi-official Jomhouri Islami reported on Monday.

The government-owned daily wrote that at a dinner gala with Iranian hoteliers and entrepreneurs, Kohl said that he “heartily agreed” with Ahmadinejad’s remarks about the Holocaust.

“What Ahmadinejad said about the Holocaust was in our bosoms”, the former German chancellor was quoted as saying. “For years we wanted to say this, but we did not have the courage to speak out”.

Ahmadinejad caused an international furore last year when he publicly declared that the Holocaust was a “myth” and threatened that Israel must be “wiped off the map”.

http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6085

[JI7]

1. look at the source

don't care much for Kohl. but i find this hard to believe. especially from this source.

[sui generis]

2. that's not possible in germany

Anyone who has ever been to a historical concentration camp, Dachau (outside of Munich), Auschwitz, half a dozen other smaller sites in Germany would understand that a German leader is the last person who could possibly deny it.

So why would Ahmadinejad say this? That's the question that begs an answer . . .

My guess is he's not talking to the outside world. He's talking to his own base and making claim of credibility by associating a German political leader with a statement like that.

That's the thing about people like Ahmadinejad and George Bush - they're only speaking to their own base. Whenever they say something this absurd, it's because they don't give a crap what anyone but their base thinks. In fact seeing the rest of the world sputter and gasp only reinforces the "truth" of the crap they say, to their base.