Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu said Tuesday at the 37th Zionist Congress that Nazi dictator
Adolf Hitler did not initially plan to exterminate the Jews and was
convinced by the grand mufti of Jerusalem – but renowned historians said
definitively on Wednesday Oct.21 that this was not the case.
Professor Dan Michman, a world-renowned expert who is the head of the Institute of Holocaust Research at Bar-Ilan University and Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem said Hitler did indeed meet the mufti – but this only occurred after the Final Solution began.
The German government said regarding Netanyahu's remarks that responsibility for the Holocaust lay with the Germans.
"All Germans know the history of the murderous race mania of the Nazis that led to the break with civilization that was the Holocaust," Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert said when asked about Benjamin Netanyahu's remarks.
"This is taught in German schools for good reason, it must never be forgotten. And I see no reason to change our view of history in any way. We know that responsibility for this crime against humanity is German and very much our own."
Read more: Historians, politicians slam PM's 'distortion of history' - Israel News, Ynetnews
Professor Dan Michman, a world-renowned expert who is the head of the Institute of Holocaust Research at Bar-Ilan University and Head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem said Hitler did indeed meet the mufti – but this only occurred after the Final Solution began.
The German government said regarding Netanyahu's remarks that responsibility for the Holocaust lay with the Germans.
"All Germans know the history of the murderous race mania of the Nazis that led to the break with civilization that was the Holocaust," Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert said when asked about Benjamin Netanyahu's remarks.
"This is taught in German schools for good reason, it must never be forgotten. And I see no reason to change our view of history in any way. We know that responsibility for this crime against humanity is German and very much our own."
Read more: Historians, politicians slam PM's 'distortion of history' - Israel News, Ynetnews
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