The Great Holocaust Conference began today in Teheran. As an amateur historian and the son of a man who gave the best years of his youth (He was flying a bomber at age 20 in 1939), helping to overthrow a monster, I am personally disgusted that anyone should deny the Holocaust (and, my friends, that is what they will try to do), and the horrible crimes committed against Jews and Poles and millions of others.
I am also shocked and angry (actually saddened), that amongst the guest speakers speaking at this FARCE are people like David Duke (KKK), who knows F---- all about the Holocaust, and Robert Faurisson, who denies the existence of the gas chambers. I did not know that Duke wrote fiction or that Faurisson was such an expert on gas chambers!
Perhaps these two men, and their uninformed colleagues, were there when thousands of Allied troops liberated Bergen-Belsen, Treblinka, Auschwitz ,Mauthausen and other concentration camps. Perhaps they have inside knowledge that proves there were no cattle trucks, gas showers, incinerators or canisters of Zyklon B. Perhaps they do not realise that evidence of these heinous crimes was so obvious that it shocked the liberators for years afterwards. Perhaps they don't know that lists were made and that the figures showed that over 5.5 million people from Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Soviet Union, Latvia, and other countries were MURDERED by the Nazis.
I'm talking History folks, and the facts are there to see, and I, a simple amateur historian, would love to meet some of these charlatans (quite a few of whom have been in jail for racial hatred), and tell them their stories are crap.
Back to reality: We all know why this conference is being held and it has to do with Palestine and Ahmadinejad's personal vendettas. I take any denial of the Holocaust seriously but do recognise that my emotions should not be soiled by a vague, biased and probably ineffectual conference peopled by racists, anti-semites and bullshitting publicity seekers.
Still, it gets me hot under the collar!