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時間がないので訳せませんが、コール元首相発言に対する疑問の記事です。
http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=8189
Doubts Rising About Germany's Kohl 'Denying the Holocaust'
News/Comment; Posted on: 2006-03-07 13:43:46
Many doubt news reports; if he did so, will he be charged like Zundel, Rudolf, and Irving?
by Melanie M. Carroll
and National Vanguard correspondents
AS REPORTED ON V-NEWS yesterday, German Chancellor Helmut Kohl reportedly spoke to Iranian businessmen visiting Germany, stating that he agreed with recent statements by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that the alleged Jewish Holocaust during World War II was a "myth," according to the Monday edition of the Jomhouri Islami newspaper. The paper stated that while meeting with a group of entrepreneurs and business owners from the Islamic state, 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 reportedly told the group. "For years we wanted to say this, but we did not have the courage to speak out."
But many commentators are discounting the report, stating that Kohl is a "true friend of Israel," and could not have made the claimed statements. One German writer stated that "If Helmut Kohl actually did make those remarks, this puts the German government in a box. If Germany prosecutes Kohl, German nationalists will be outraged and some of the mainstream population radicalized. However, if Germany doesn't prosecute Kohl, the defense teams of Zundel and Rudolf can claim their clients are victims of selective prosecution."
Other correspondents claim that Kohl's son, who married a Turkish woman, works for Goldman Sachs, and that Kohl was awarded the "Joseph Medal" by Jewish groups -- an award also given to Israeli leaders David Ben-Gurion and Menachem Begin -- and also was given the "Buber Rosenzweig Medal" and was twice awarded honors by the Jewish organization B'nai B'rith. Kohl was also a strong advocate for a huge "monument to the Holocaust" the size of several football fields in Berlin, Germany's capital.
Jewish writer Jeff Goldstein is unsure about the statements attributed to Kohl: 'Personally, that quote sounds to me a bit too much like an Iranian propagandist trying to mimic a western leader, so take it with a grain of salt. Still, western Europe’s slow steady creep toward a renewed anti-semitism -- posing as a critique of Zionism -- sadly makes such a statement at least plausible.' Another presumably Jewish writer on Goldstein's site sees rising 'anti-Semitism' even among Europe's academic elite: 'My long-time friendship with a Portuguese professor ended ...when the guy’s latent anti-Semitism flared up. The dumbass, a leading researcher in his field, seriously entertained the notion that the Jews were behind the 911 attacks. The beast is still there, waiting for another chance.'
Germany's nationalist political party, the NPD, have been opponents of Kohl and accuse him and his policies of sending eastern Germany into decline.
As reported by V-News correspondent R. V. Lily, President Ahmadinejad stated last year -- agreeing with numerous historians -- that the Holocaust was a "myth." Ahmadinejad also suggested that Israel should be relocated out of the Middle East, though sensationalistic media distorted this remark to make it seem that the Iranian president had called for genocide, which he had not. Ervin Shahar, an Israeli lawyer, wants Ahmadinejad arrested and charged with "Holocaust denial" to effectively "decapitate" the Iranian state.
Both the state-run and indepedent media in Iran have defended the position of the Iranian President and have, furthermore, given a great deal of mainstream exposure to revisionist historians and technical experts who doubt some Jewish Holocaust claims.
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