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denem

(11,045 posts)
Wed Oct 21, 2015, 10:55 PM Oct 2015

Germany tells Netanyahu: We are responsible for the Holocaust [View all]

Source: BBC

Germany has insisted it was responsible for the Holocaust, after Israel's prime minister claimed a Palestinian leader told the Nazis to kill Europe's Jews.

Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germans were "very clear in our minds" that the Nazis were responsible

Benjamin Netanyahu had said Hitler had only wanted to expel Jews from Europe, but that Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini told him: "Burn them."

His remarks have been condemned by Israeli historians and politicians.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34599706



Merkel: "We abide by our responsibility as Germany for the Shoa [Holocaust]"
Netanyhu: "No-one should deny that Hitler was responsible for the Holocaust"
(just one bad egg or two Bibi?)

This must be some kind of alternative reality.
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