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Monsignore Williamson:
"In this matter I side with the revisionists. Not
one Jew was killed in a gas chamber
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An
actual event that occurred near Regensburg (Germany) at a
sanctification of deacons in November 2008 at All Saint’s Day, could
damage the already tense relation between Catholics and Jews even more.
Monsignore
Williamson, who was commissioned by Arch Bishop Marcel Lefebvre, the
founder of The St. Pius X brotherhood, to persue with the founder’s
lifework, came to Zeitzkofen where The St. Piux X Church conducts a
seminary in a baroque palace.
At
All Saint's Day the Swedish convert, Sten Sandmark, was to be
consecrated as a new deacon at the seminary. It was because Sandmark's
conversion from the Protestant Church to The St. Pius X Church had
caused a scandal in Sweden. Therefore the Stockholm based TV journalist
Ali Fegan was present to capture the event for Swedish Television.
After the consecration, Fegan interviewed Monsignore Williamson and
others in the palace’s chapel.
In
the course of the interview the subject of Nazi crimes came up. The
footage shows how Williamson paused for a moment and then said that he
does not believe that six million Jews were gassed in gas chambers. On
the sudden counter question: "So, there weren’t any gas chambers?",
the bishop replied: "I believe, gas chambers never existed, yes."
In
this matter, he said, he sides with the "revisionists" who believe
that "two to three hundred thousand Jews in Nazi concentration camps
died. But not one of them had been killed by gas in a gas chambers."
Then
the clergyman talked much about technical impossibilities, the heights
of Chimneys and improper doors because they were untight, but that they
were still shown today to "the tourists" at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
"If
this is not anti-Semitism", the Swedish interviewer dug deeper, "what
is it?" Bishop Williamson: "Anti-Semitism can only be bad if
it is against the truth. But if something is true, it can’t be bad. I
am not interested in the word anti-Semitism."
The
one hour documentary was shown on Swedish Television (SVT1) on
Wednesdy, 21 January 2009 as part of a programme called "Uppdrag
granskning" (Task for Revision).
The
Central Council of Jews in Germany was informed some time ago and
demands a legal probe into the case whether Williamson had committed a
crime. Denying the holocaust is a crime in Germany.
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