German prosecutors act against h0Ɩ0cαųst-denying bishop


BERLIN (AFP)---German prosecutors have filed a complaint against a British bishop, Richard Williamson, for inciting racial hatred after he said that "not one Jєω" was killed in nαzι gas chambers.

The competent court in Regensburg, southern Germany, must now decide whether to accept the charges, its president Johann Ploed said, adding that the decision would come in around one week.
 
Any punishment would likely be a fine, he said. If Williamson accepted the fine, there would be no need for a public trial.  
Williamson sparked controversy in January when he gave a television interview in the vicinity of Regensburg in which he said: "There was not one Jєω killed by the gas chambers. It was all lies, lies, lies."  
 
The bishop said he believed "200,000 to 300,000 Jєωs perished in nαzι cσncєnтrαтισn cαмρs, but none of them by gas chambers."
   
The outburst prompted a very rare comment on religious matters by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who called on Pope Benedict XVI to "clarify unambiguously that there can be no denial" the nαzιs killed six million Jєωs.  
The scandal carried particular resonance as it was nαzι Germany that masterminded and carried out the murders during World War II, and because the 82-year-old pope is German.  

Denying that the h0Ɩ0cαųst took place is illegal in Germany and Austria.

I do not care what other people on this board say.  There is absolutely, positively no doubt whatsoever that the h0Ɩ0cαųst occurred, and that at least six million Jєωs and another six million gypsies, ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖs (the nαzιs had conservative moral values, by the way), mentally ill persons, and other "undesirables" perished in nαzι death camps.  In total, 12 million individuals were murdered by the nαzιs.  In addition, the nαzιs also made extensive use of the guillotine, executing more individuals than were killed during all of the French Revolution.  The nαzιs were unspeakably hideous and cruel, forcing the condemned to face the blade of the guillotine looking up, their eyes forced open.

By the way, I am not opposed to the death penalty, but I think that it should be administered as humanly as possible, and with compassion, not cruelty.