Nepal News.Net
Friday 23rd January, 2009
A British bishop who this week said there were no gas chambers used by Germany during the second World War, and said the number of Jews killed was only 5% of what was estimated by historians, is to be investigated by German prosecutors.
The interview with Richard Williamson, 68, a former Roman Catholic bishop who has been excommunicated by the Church, which aired on a television network in Sweden this week, was pre-recorded in November.
'I believe there were no gas chambers,' he said 'I think that 200,000 to 300,000 Jews perished in Nazi concentration camps but none of them by gas chambers.'
'There was not one Jew killed by the gas chambers. It was all lies, lies, lies,' he said.
Historians have concluded six million Jews died at the hands of Nazi Germany during the second World War, most of them in gas chambers.
The airing of the controversial interview co-incided with a report that Pope Benedict XVI was reversing the excommunication of Williamson, along with three other bishops. The report could not be confirmed.
Lars-Goran Svensson, the Swedish programme's producer, said the interview being aired at the same time the Pope was considering the status of Williamson was 'pure coincidence.'
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