U.S. State Dept. to revise Web site after Holocaust complaint

U.S. State Dept. to revise Web site after Holocaust complaint
By The Associated Press

The U.S. State Department said Monday it would revise a portion of its Web site after a prominent Jewish group accused it of minimizing the Holocaust and Germany's role in the Nazi slaughter of European Jews.

The department's special envoy for Holocaust issues said a section of the site devoted to background notes on Germany would be altered following a protest from The Simon Wiesenthal Center that urged Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to change the entry that it charged omitted key information about the mass killings.

"We intend to change the language in order to more accurately reflect historical facts," said the envoy, J. Christian Kennedy.

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While the section entitled 'Background Note Germany' does contain a general reference to the crime of genocide and the establishment of concentration camps, there is no mention who the principal victims were or that the real purpose of the camps was to eliminate Europe's Jews as part of Hitler's 'Final Solution of the Jewish Question', he wrote.

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There is no direct reference to the Nazis targetting Jews for death or the numbers killed. Hier noted that similar sections on the Web site devoted to genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Sudan's western Darfur region and Stalinist Russia all discussed specific numbers and types of victims. In addition, the entry on Poland, where many Nazi concentration camps were located, also mentions the enormity of the killings, he said.

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