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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. (AP)
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| By Associated Press January 17, 2006 |
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Organizations representing the victims of Nazi concentration camps on Monday condemned the Iranian president's questioning of the Holocaust and called for politicians to express their outrage.
In a statement issued at the Buchenwald camp memorial in eastern Germany, the groups described President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's comments as "a provocation of all victims of Nazi crimes that cannot be tolerated."
"For the first time, the president of a United Nations member state has dared openly to spread publicly such views that deny the Holocaust," it read.
The groups "call on all those with political responsibility in the whole world - and particularly in Europe, where most of the victims of the deadly lunacy of the Nazis were from - to condemn unanimously and unconditionally these unacceptable comments."
The statement was drawn up "on behalf of the survivors and the relatives of the dead" by the presidents of committees representing survivors of Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald/Dora, Dachau, Flossenbuerg, Mauthausen, Natzweiler-Struthof, Neuengamme, Ravensbrueck and Sachsenhausen.
Iran on Sunday announced plans for a conference to examine evidence for the Holocaust.
Ahmadinejad had earlier called the Nazis' World War II slaughter of 6 million European Jews a "myth" and said Israel should be wiped off the map or moved to Germany or the United States.
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