Tag Archives : Holocaust denial

Josias Kumpf, now 83, did active service during the Holocaust as an armed SS guard at three Nazi concentration camps: the Sachsenhausen Camp, slave labor sites in Nazi-occupied France where prisoners built launching platforms for Germany’s V-1 and V-2 rockets that were used in attacks on Britain, and Nazi forced-labor camps for Jews in Trawniki, [...]

The lifting of the excommunication that was earlier levied on the Holocaust denier Bishop Williamson was not a lack of communication but a mistake of the government of the Vatican. Even if the Pope did not know about the negation of Bishop Williamson and even if he is not anti-Semitic himself, everyone knows that the subject in question is anti-Semitic. [...]

The Vatican states that Benedict XVI has already been very clear, but Chancellor Angela Merkel slams as inadequate the Vatican clarification on the reintegration of Bishop Richard Williamson who was earlier excommunicated. Williamson had explicitly declared doubts that the Jews were, indeed, mass executed during the Holocaust. Vatican spokesman, Father [...]