Former Senior Aide to Pat Buchanan Spoke at Holocaust-Deniers' Meeting

Former Senior Aide to Pat Buchanan Spoke at Holocaust-Deniers' Meeting
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=40829

12/16/2004 8:05:00 AM

To: National Desk

Contact: Rafael Medoff of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, 215-635-5622 or rafaelmedoff@aol.com; Web: http://www.WymanInstitute.org

MELROSE PARK, Pa., Dec. 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A former senior aide to talk show host and one-time presidential candidate Pat Buchanan spoke at a meeting of Holocaust-deniers earlier this year, according to this year's annual report on Holocaust-denial activity around the world.

The year-end report, Holocaust Denial: A Global Survey - 2004, has been issued by The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, which is located on the campus of Gratz College, near Philadelphia. The report's co-authors are Holocaust scholars Dr. Alex Grobman (author of a recent book on Holocaust denial) and Dr. Rafael Medoff (director of the Wyman Institute).

The complete text of the Wyman Institute's report may be viewed on the Wyman Institute's web site, http://www.WymanInstitute.org

The report notes that Peter Gemma, a senior staff member of Pat Buchanan's 2000 presidential campaign, spoke at a February 19, 2004 meeting in Virginia of the Institute for Historical Review, the leading Holocaust-denial organization in the United States. Gemma introduced the evening's keynote speaker, IHR director Mark Weber.

The association of a former Buchanan aide with Holocaust- deniers is particularly noteworthy in view of Buchanan's own troubling positions concerning Hitler and the Holocaust. He has written that 850,000 Jews could not have been gassed in Treblinka because "diesel engines do not emit enough carbon dioxide to kill anybody"; he spoke out on behalf of accused Nazi war criminals Karl Linnas and Arthur Rudolph; he wrote columns defending Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk; he described Hitler as "an individual of great courage"; and he mocked Holocaust survivors' memories as "group fantasies of martyrdom and heroics." (The New Republic, Oct.15 and Oct.22, 1990) In his 1999 book, A Republic, Not an Empire, Buchanan argued that the U.S. should not have gone to war against Nazi Germany.

Other highlights of this year's report:
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ABOUT THE WYMAN INSTITUTE: The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, located on the campus of Gratz College (near Philadelphia), is a research and education institute focusing on America's response to the Holocaust. It is named in honor of the eminent historian and author of the 1984 best-seller The Abandonment of the Jews, the most important and influential book concerning the U.S. response to the Nazi genocide.

The Institute's Advisory Committee includes Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Elie Wiesel, Members of Congress, and other luminaries.

The Institute's Academic Council includes 48 leading professors of the Holocaust, American history, and Jewish history.

The Institute's Arts & Letters Council, chaired by Cynthia Ozick, includes prominent artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers.

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...Council on National Policy board of governors.

Also runs a right-wing spammer service.

The more I google on him, the more turns up. He's a long-time crypto-Nazi associated with various right-wing political and religious groups.

Reminds me of the people the Reagan/Bush administration brought into their 'Heritage Councils'.

have brains made out of jello.