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Kristallnacht: A Documentary about Racism, Anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust
Lest we forget: A shocking, five-part documentary of man’s cruelty to his fellow man!

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Spiegel Interview with Israeli Historian Saul Friedländer
SPIEGELONLINE INTERNATIONAL: Israeli historian Saul Friedländer, winner of the 2007 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, spoke to SPIEGEL about the importance of victims' accounts in researching the Holocaust and the failure of efforts in Germany to draw a line under the issue.

SPIEGEL: Professor Friedländer, in contrast to other accounts of the history of the Holocaust, in your book "Nazi Germany and the Jews, the Years of Extermination," you give us ample opportunity to hear from the victims through diaries and letters. Why didn't you limit your focus to the history of the perpetrators?

Saul Friedländer: Because that's not enough. We basically still needed a book that went beyond an analysis of German politics and included the environment -- in other words, the churches, the elites, the general population in Germany and in other countries -- and incorporated the voices of the victims, of those who were murdered.

SPIEGEL: Were you interested in the educational effect here, since the horror becomes more vivid this way?

Friedländer: No, many aspects only become clear from an examination of the victims' sources, not from official documents. For instance, the fact that the Jews in Germany and Western Europe didn't know what was going on -- and in Eastern Europe they didn't want to believe what they saw. Take my parents -- after their deportation from France in 1942, a friend wrote to my grandmother, who lived in Stockholm, to say that my parents had been sent to Germany or to a Jewish reservation in Poland. He had no idea that they had been murdered.

SPIEGEL: Would it have changed anything if the victims had known what was going on?

Friedländer: It does makes a considerable difference whether the Nazis murdered millions of people who didn't know what was going to happen to them or killed people who had already assumed the worst.

SPIEGEL: Because it explains why the extermination process went so smoothly?

Friedländer: Yes.

SPIEGEL: The opposite position was held by the recently deceased Holocaust historian Raul Hilberg. "The best way to grasp the reality of the situation," he said, "is to reconstruct events from the perspective of the perpetrators."

Friedländer: I have great respect for Hilberg. He was the classic expert on the machinery of extermination. But he only worked with documents left by the perpetrators and thought that the victims had gone to their deaths like lambs to the slaughter. If you read between the lines, you can even sense the rage with which he writes about the Jews' lack of resistance. But they simply didn't know what was happening. ’The Holocaust Won’t Disappear’ (more)

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According to Ahmadinejad, There Are No Homosexuals in Iran and the Holocaust Needs Further Research!
THE TELEGRAPH: The president of Iran was booed yesterday when he told an audience at one of America's leading universities that the Holocaust required "further research", amid noisy protests against the decision to grant him a platform.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also attracted mirth when claiming that Iran had no homosexuals. In response to a question about why gay men had been hanged for the sexuality, he said: "We don’t have homosexuals in our country like you have in the West. In Iran we do not have those people."

Addressing Columbia University in New York, which has a high proportion of Jewish students, he said of the Holocaust: "Why is there not sufficient research that can approach the topic from different perspectives? There are researchers who want to do that but they are put in prison." 

The president has on several occasions called for Israel's obliteration, while steering his country on course to build a nuclear weapon. President Ahmadinejad booed at US university (more) By Alex Spillius in New York

WATCH VIDEO: Ahmadinejad at Columbia University

YOUTUBE: There are no gays in Iran!

YOUTUBE: Gays don’t exist in Iran!

Take a look at these, Mr hmadinejad. They should disabuse you of your silly notions:

Gays underground in Iran: Part 1
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Don’t Kid Yourself, Mr Ahmadinejad! The Holocaust:

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Nazi Files of the Holocaust Are Being Transferred to the US and Israel
BBC: The keepers of a vast archive of Nazi documents on the Holocaust have transferred copies of millions of files to museums in Israel and the US.

The electronic transfer is part of an agreement to open up the Bad Arolsen archive, overseen by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

The files, kept in Germany, were found in concentration camps and other Nazi prisons at the end of World War II.

Several countries have not yet ratified the agreement, delaying full access.

The archive will only be fully opened to the public when the 2006 protocol is ratified by Italy, France and Greece. That is expected later this year.

The ICRC says the archive has now transferred many documents from the archive to the Holocaust Memorial Museum in the US and to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Centre in Israel.

Chilling details
The 47 million files stored in the spa town of Bad Arolsen hold meticulously recorded information on forced labourers, concentration camp victims and political prisoners. They take up 26km (16 miles) of shelving. Copies of Nazi files transferred (more)

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