the holocaust stopped in may of 1945 but continues in the middle east. all of the infrastructure put into place by the arabs to destroy the jews, came into middle east countries, the -- they invaded israel and voted not to restore palestinian rights or their lands but to exterminate the jews. they had a phrase, this was invented in the 1920s. palestine is our land. they would run up and down the streets and scream that. palestine is our land. here is the second half. palestine is our land, the jew is our god. this is not 1945. this is the 1920s. this wasn't one. this was a regular chance. i am trying to give you the mind set, the roots of the arab/not the alliance in the holocaust. to all these guys whose names were hitler and his names were adolf, common cause after world war ii, some 2,000 nazi prison guards migrated into the middle east, into egypt. the sole purpose of waging war with propaganda. the investments in sanctioned with military maneuvers, wars, the war of independence in 1948 and 0 the others that came to pass. german masterminds were work

in the holocaust. so all these guys whose names were hitler and all these guys whose name was adolf found common cause after world war ii. in fact, some 2000 nazis, prison guards, estoppel, s. s., migrated into the middle east, into egypt, we have the names in the book for the sole purpose of waging war against israel with propaganda, with boycott disinvestment and sanctions, with military maneuvers. wars. independence war, the work independence in 1948, and all the other wars that came to pass. german mastermind were working behind the scenes and, indeed, in the front on the airplanes bring it is to rally. what does this mean for us today? you have to look today when i see i got called mohammed who says i will never recognize israel as a jewish state. they can call themselves anything we want. this harkens back to the concept of we will never allow, we will never allow ourselves to coexist with jews in palestine. now, you may say why didn't you mention this and why didn't you mention that? i didn't me

one has to make a distinction between final distinction and holocaust. i would say something different which is the reason i don't use it is it would be distracting for the english-language audiences and that is basically at. in this room one could say it and would be clear what one is talking about. i don't use it for the reason i don't think 93% or 99% of my leadership doesn't have ideas about the famine one way or another and introducing new words to them in a foreign language is not going to be the best way for them to grasp what's going on. so behind your question about languages is the question about the liberation. from this i can tell and forgive me for saying this, i can tell you how to write the book because one of the -- i make a very strong case in the first chapter that this was a deliberate policy. that after the tens of thousands of killings and deportations, after the collectivization in the time when stalin knew that there was famine, there was his word and ukraine he deliberately escalated policy and concrete ways the this the blacklist

holocaust. the idea of getting rid of the jews finally. in most of it's draft versions, it involved deportation. murderous deportation, but not physical murder on site. but to understand, one has to make a distinction. i say something different. which is that the reason that i don't use it, i think it would be distracting for english-language audiences. that's basically it. in this room, one could say, and it would be very clear. i don't use it in the book for the simple reason that i think 98 or 99% of the leadership does not have ideas about the famine one way or another. introducing new words in a foreign language is not going to be the best way to grasp. behind your question about language is a question about deliberation. and from this i can tell you, forgive me for saying this, this is how i write the book. i make a very strong case in the first chapter, this was a deliberate policy. after tens of thousands of killings and deportations and collectivization, at a time when stalin knew that was a famine in ukraine, he escalated policy

it doesn't mean the holocaust didn't happen. the germans had big ambitious plans and in practice and killing policies, there's a lot of communication back and forth, back and forth, where the center gives general ideas of what's going to happen. the people at the idea, report back. and the center gives an indication to go forward or stop. it's usually go forward. it's not the kind of careful memorandum that you would expect. on the soviet side, there's no master plan to kill millions of people. when there is the intentional to kill millions of people, it's extremely well documented. the soviets wrote things down, recorded them, they thought the revolution and history was on their side. they put things in the filing coo -- filing cabinets and then archived. when the file could come back, he'd right to be archived. we must export as much as possible after they talked about the conditions in ukraine. stalin says yes, right, that's documented. for the terror, we have the numbers. we have the quotas that went down from the center, th

but we say, i got to go back to the holocaust. we saw that -- we saw and we learned that whenever good people said no, people lived. jews lived, gays lived, gypsies lived. there they were. millions of people who didn't do anything. millions of good people who didn't do anything. the ones that collaborated were a small, small, small group. and the ones who stood up were even smaller. and yet there were all good people. and yet they were all good people. and, you know, i have a -- i have my own little dream. my dream is -- i've sort of -- i've sort of not given up, but i'm -- i used to think that we could find a vaccine against prejudice. you know, on one hand, when you think that we've conquered time and space, reached the moon, we've eradicated smallpox, polio, we've transplanted the heart, why can't we find an anecdote and vaccine against hate or bigotry to maybe, you know, maybe the good people don't need it. but maybe they do. and now i'm somewhat -- my little dream is we're into dna. and i know a lot of people worry about dna

of the holocaust. and in that winter i was in the home of one teenager. her name, shelley, a 16-year-old, and i can vividly remember that moment when we were talking about the horrors of the holocaust, and she was describing the experience of her family, much of it murdered during this event. her father was sitting by her. he literally was born on the rubble of the warsaw ghetto. and as she was talking, i pulled out this photo, and i placed it on the table. what happened next was extremely surprising. she smiled. and she began to giggle. and then she pointed at the little boy, and she said, you know, he's a relative of mine. he lives in new york. and the punchline was, do you want his phone number? [laughter] you can imagine my face at that moment. now, i would hear that story time and time again in the years that would come. i heard it from other students, i heard it from an official guide, i heard it from professors in the university, i heard it from history professors. but unfortunately, i can say v

this is a sanitized version of the holocaust. there are no reports, the jews themselves are not as malnutrition as you would see in a leader photos. they look relatively soon to say good in comparison to what comes leader. this is also beyond being a sanitized version this is also a picture that touches the mother child connection assuming this is the mother and child although we do not know that. so, and within that line there are only primarily women and children. you barely see any jewish man. so those are some of the nation's i'm coming up with. there's others, but i will leave those for a later point. when i published an article about this. >> good evening. - -- im arrived late when you were being introduced. there are 2.5 like to ask or make. am i right in assuming if this isn't as a result of the resistance of the jews because they are clearing people of houses who are able to carry their packed possessions because they've got bags, and i am assuming that many of the bunkers that were cleared with photos of people coming o

the german parliament remembers victims of the holocaust. and ancient statues go back on show in berlin after being deduced to revel in the second world war. -- after being deduced to rubble in the second world war. ♪ >> nobel peace laureate and egyptian opposition leader mohamed elbaradei says his country must change, and he is ready to lead the transition. elbaradei has flown in to cairo to join protests against the government of president hosni mubarak. elbaradei's arrival comes amid mass arrests in an ever-growing security presence on the streets. >> the return of the nobel peace laureate and former head of the international atomic energy agency -- scores of people came to meet him at cairo airport. he could become a figurehead for the demonstrators. he is considered a potential challenger to president hosni mubarak. >> [inaudible] i wish we did not have to go to the street to express to the regime that we need change. we tried an election. nothing worked. all the demands fell on deaf ears. >> elbaradei made it clear before leaving for

the third reason is the strongest reason of the history of the holocaust. the last 20 years, the historiography of the holocaust has been raised to very high levels by german historians and also israelis and americans. and new schools coming out of poland and other european countries this is important but there are limitations. the first is language. almost all of the holocaust history that is read is based upon german sources which can get you far if you're trying to do is understand german decision making. but you could go further if you have languages in eastern europe but they do not help you with the victims whether jewish or nine jewish and 97% of the jews killed in the holocaust did not know german. even if you're only concern with the german victims you would find it would limit you and the nine jewish victims are less likely to speak german those that left behind traces but those are not in the german language. the second the limitation of the history of the holocaust is it that to it is related and tends to take the perspective of berlin and will

. >> tomorrow it's holocaust memorial day. the anniversary of the day in which auschwitz was liberated. would my right honorable friend join with me in paying tribute to the holocaust education trust and the work to ensure that the lessons of the holocaust are not forgotten? >> i know my honorable friend speaks for the whole house when he raises the brilliant work that the holocaust education trust do and i think it's a good time actually to pay tribute to sadly very few holocaust survivors that there are still left. i had the huge privilege of meeting and to hear the story of what those people went through, what they escaped and in many cases what they had to go through even after their escape is truly humbling. we must never forget, not just because of what happened in europe in the holocaust because of too often the genocide in our world today we need to be permanently reminded of that fact. >> mr. ian davidson. >> the prime minister of the chancellor and a majority grew up in secured worlds of economic wealth and privilege

to ensure that the lessons of the holocaust are not forgotten? >> i know that my honorable friend speaks for the whole house when he raises the brilliant work that the holocaust education trust does. i think this is a good time to pay tribute to the, sadly very few, holocaust survivors left. i had the huge privilege of meeting one, trude levi, yesterday in no. 10 downing street. to hear the story of what those people went through, what they escaped, and in many cases what they had to go through even after they escaped, is truly humbling. we must never forget -- not just because of what happened in europe in the holocaust, but because too often there is genocide in our world today. we need to be permanently reminded of that fact. >> the prime minister, the chancellor and the majority of the cabinet grew up in secure worlds of economic wealth and privilege. does the prime minister agree that today's young people face economic uncertainty and high youth unemployment? is youth unemployment a price worth paying? >> it never is, but youth unemployment

there's a recognition of the holocaust liberation day which is january 27th. it's been declared as a day of congressmen ration on -- comen ration on the holocaust. there's ideas to begin to teach the holocaust not only as a jewish tragedy, but a national tragedy. e.u. has had conferences on the internet. it translated some adl materials on prejudice. we're engaged in efforts with some e.u. agencies to sensitize law enforcement. police officers are sometimes coming on the scene of conflict and can become the problem or the solution. if they don't understand prejudice or the prejudice themselves, that makes it worse. the e.u. can facilitate not only as a voice, but there's need for education. there is need for implementation of the resolutions that say, yes, there's anti-semitism, and a lot of material needs to be trainlated, made available. teachers need to be taught how to teach. i'd be delighted to give you a shopping list, but basically, there is today recognition that there is a problem, and your opinion is dealing with islamic as well because that's a grow

the german parliament remembers victims of the holocaust. and ancient statues go back on show in berlin after being deduced to revel in the second world war. -- after being deduced to rubble in the second world war. ♪ >> nobel peace laureate and egyptian opposition leader mohamed elbaradei says his country must change, and he is ready to lead the transition. elbaradei has flown in to cairo to join protests against the government of president hosni mubarak. elbaradei's arrival comes amid mass arrests in an ever-growing security presence on the streets. >> the return of the nobel peace laureate and former head of the international atomic energy agency -- scores of people came to meet him at cairo airport. he could become a figurehead for the demonstrators. he is considered a potential challenger to president hosni mubarak. >> [inaudible] i wish we did not have to go to the street to express to the regime that we need change. we tried an election. nothing worked. all the demands fell on deaf ears. >> elbaradei made it clear before leaving for

>> do you agree there was a holocaust? >> allow me to raise the second question and you'll get your answer. >> are you denying that a holocaust existed? >> you cannot violate the rights of the audience here. >> i understand that. but all i wanted to know is do you agree that there was a holocaust? that's a simple yes or no. >> i don't think he'll let me do him again, ahmadinejad. that was something. >>> wrenching events in the middle east. >> it's family. the palestinians and the jews are second cousins. you have a family argument and dispute and two faiths -- >> attacks, counterattacks, revenge, retribution. >> someone said to me you could be a diplomat, you could be a peace broker. >> together for the first time ever on television, jordan's king hussein, yitzhak rabin and plo chairman yasser arafat talk about peace in the middle east. >> very interesting night. thoughtful night. as bill clinton told me, he's not sure it's solvable. he came very close, arafat turned that deal down. i still don't know why he turned it down

he received probably the first hard evidence of the holocaust. what he did was he went to this the department. for tenures in this department during a briefing that he could to stop any kind of action on behalf of the jews. but they told him was, this is so terrible we cannot believe it. i mean, they said privately, what can we do? so they told him, wait. finally he waited for a while until it gets to be impossible. bad him in the news public, but he himself, how horrible, i can't believe it. an expression of disbelief this seems to be the rationale and for not doing anything. as he said, this is terrible. what are you doing? you can say, well, i don't want said c. russell because of demand. sir you just say, well, it can't be true. i think that explains a lot of the people who express, jewish leaders that were reluctant to admit. and it was horrible, but after a while when you have all this evidence piling up. this is the latest and biggest, but perhaps there is something to be done. its you for your question. >> sir, you started your talk by no

or holocaust. call it what you want. we have very clearly, i have been around 45 years, director almost 25 years. you will find on our web site, the language in materials that we teach that we have never denied it. we have always described it as a massacre, as an atrocity and we always called on the turkish government to deal with it. on the issue of legislation we have an opinion. we never lobbied against it. when asked we said we do not believe that this issue, this painful issue is going to be resolved by a resolution in congress. we have again said this is an issue that needs to be resolved by the two peoples, by the two nations and i still believe to this day that resolution in congress is not going to resolve it. the beginning of the process which we have seen in the last year not totally successful but the exchange between the president of turkey to armenia and the president of armenia to turkey is the beginning of a dialogue. a dialog which hopefully will lead to reconciliation which will lead to facing the past,

to read the masses on the atrocities of the holocaust. now look out why ordinary people in america don't share the optimism your president sought to instill in his state of the union address. the russian president has opened the world economic forum in davos shifting discussions towards global security we have proposed new ways should be worked out to calculate the risks that threaten the world artie's lore and it listens to the president's speech. today is the first full day of. world economic forum but the tone for the rest of the meeting was really set by the keynote speech made last night by russian president dmitri medvedev he was introduced by the head of the forum klaus schwab who asked the audience to stand and observe a minute's silence in memory of the victims of monday's bomb blast at domodedovo airport understandably president medvedev then started his speech by talking about that bomb blast he told us about the way that it had shaken society and created indignation throughout the world and he thanked again world leaders who h

israel's national holocaust museum and the search giant google have announced a joint project a nazi era archives more than one hundred thousand photos and documents from the museum will now be available online this comes as the world marks international holocaust remembrance day on the twenty seventh of january and on this day nine hundred forty five the largest of the nazi concentration camps auschwitz birkenau was liberated by the soviet army it's estimated around six million jews were murdered by the nazi regime in europe even today some questions remain unanswered over what exactly took place during the nazi occupation of poland as history professor young groves explains. what's happened however all over occupied europe in the territories that the germans have invaded is that the local population was as the jews were being the security of local population got drawn into that process of persecution in the benefit but clearly from it and. was that act on it to give shelter to jews who were trying to avoid that. and that would that but seems to me that they said that isn't was a fa

aims to educate the masses on the atrocities of the holocaust. and we'll look at why ordinary people in america don't share the optimism your president sought to instill. terror threats preventing manmade disaster is on the weekend leaks revelations the first day of the world economic forum in davos a stake in an unexpected course after the russian president's opening speech argues lower and it has the details from switzerland. today is the first full day of. the economic forum but the tone for the rest of the meeting was really set by the keynote speech made last night by russian president dmitri medvedev he was introduced by the head of the forum klaus schwab who asked the audience to stand and observe a minute's silence in memory of the victims of monday's bomb blast at domodedovo airport understandably president medvedev then started his speech by talking about that bomb blast he talked about the way that it had shaken society and created indignation throughout the world and he thanks again world leaders who had sent him messages messages of

and then came the holocaust and then that hope turned into something else. it turned into a necessity and a demand and a passion. >> you say that you also went to a concentration camp? >> yes. we went to germany. >> you and your husband? >> yeah. a junkett, a group of us went. and they asked us where we wanted to go. and i said -- i wrote down, a concentration camp. and i heard later that the german hosts were very flustered by this reque. they were no happy with it, but they took us to one, which was the most attractive, if you want to put it that way. it was cleaned up and so on. but it was just as revealing as -- in its own way as if we had gone to auschwitz, which was much bigger and muchse. >> revealing in what way? >> well, it was those ovens that got me. they weren't much used there, just a bit. but i had this vision of a kind of great holocaust, some great fiery thing that the jews were thrown into. these were ovens like the size of a baker's oven, with a kind of shelf on which two people took a body, opened the door, and pushed one body in. so it wa

it's been declared as a day of commemoration on the holocaust. there are efforts to continue to teach or to begin to teach the holocaust not only as a jewish tragedy, but as a universal tragedy in the sense that if you permit hate to reach another level. and the e.u. has had conferences on hate on the internet, it has translated some adl materials on prejudice. we're engaged in efforts with some e.u. agencies to sensitize law enforcement. police officers sometimes they come on the scene of conflict can either become the problem or the solution. and if they don't understand prejudice or the prejudice themselves, it makes it worse. so the e.u. can facilitate not only as a voice, it's important to have a voice, but there's need for education. there's need for implementation of the resolutions which say, yes, there's anti-semitism. and a lot of material needs to be translated, needs to be made available, teachers need to be taught how to teach. so there's, you know, i'm delighted to give you a shopping list. but, basically, there is today recognition

the middle east that grew out of the holocaust is in many ways with us today. once again, it's important to keep this discussion completely historic. if anyone tries to draw me into a contemporary discussion, i'm not going to be drawn into it because i'm here only o talking about the academic history. i should say that there were more than a dozen volunteers in five countries who helped o research this book. there's a web site for the book called farhudbook.com, farhud is f-a-r-h-u-d, and we reviewed thousands of archives. we reviewed the yiddish press, the german press, the american press, the arabic press, the nazi press, the nazi diplomatic papers, and we tried to do as thorough a job to vet the process. in fact, some of the people who helped me provide the book to you are in the audience today. with that, i'll start reading. and i'd like to get a copy of the book. can we have a copy brought up? so when did the hatred for the jews begin in the muslim world? and why did it last as long as it lasted? well, the history shows us -- remember, we're talking histor

and the same is true with the holocaust which is one of the reasons why it's such a difficult subject. people think there has to be, you know, there has to be a plan with proper paragraphs with hitler's signature at the bottom and, of course, there is no such thing. hitler and himmler talked about this themselves, there are thousands and thousands of indications about what they talked about, but one is never going to find a plan which says, you know, this is the way the holocaust is going to happen. it doesn't exist, but of course that doesn't mean the holocaust didn't happen or that they didn't want it to happen. the germans had big, ambitious plans and then in practice in their killing policies, there's a lot of communication back and forth where the center gives general ideas what's going to happen. the people down at the bottom report back as to what they've done, and the center either gives an indication you should go forward, or you should stop, and it's usually go forward. but it's not the kind of careful memoranda you might expect at all. whereas on the soviet side though ther

is a crime do not deny holocaust but i just think that history should historical discussion should be absolutely free and that. as many intellectuals for. right or left as in discussion about your should be one hundred percent free also also because especially the laws about that in france were made by committees you know and committees themselves there are many things to reproach. to too quickly to to be criticised and i think they wanted to prevent this kind of free approach so i am in favor of freedom nothing else i have been portrayed as a moderate face of a somewhat extremist party now how can you claim legitimacy when you have been associated with fascism. nobody associated as with the neo fascist have never been even an. i've never been a fascist nor me still a bend or sore so i wonder how i could be portrayed as a mere fascist no. well you said that i've been portrayed as a moderate face a funny stories about it but you know i've also been portrayed as the extremist face of the moderate party so i. think none of this for his asian is really true well i am a tough guy if you wa

it also this framework this is also a process to sue to introduce laws penalizing so-called holocaust denial of course i'm a historian on a very well the holocaust took place but i think such laws are. penalizing criminalizing idiots. are very very detrimental to any kind of free debate because what is it and what is the next thing that has to be determined in court for example who was responsible for the outbreak of the first world war where you could say it was russian or it was england or france will austria austria hungary or the system as such i mean are we then in a few years going to have to have it having to go to courts to determine how to settle historical questions who was responsible for starting. was it the post of excess them was that lennon was it himself or somebody else i mean these things have to be discussed openly in a fair public debates it's not a question for courts to decide thank you very much for your time. this is not a theatrical set. this is a real correctional facility. is there any cultural life behind us. could transform a criminal. and. really revoluti

and of course i'm a historian on a very well the holocaust took place. but i think such laws are. penalizing criminalizing idiots. are very very detrimental to any kind of free debate because where is it and what is the next thing that has to be determined in court for example who was responsible for the outbreak of the first world war where you could say it was russian or it was england or france or austria austria hungary all the system as such i mean are we then in a few years going to have to have it having to go to court to determine how to settle historical questions who was responsible for starting. it was at the post of excess them was that lennon was it himself or somebody else i mean these things have to be discussed openly in a fair public debates it's not a question for courts to decide thank you very much for your time. question is that so much different and there's a huge decision the power of mind and the friends is outside democracy promotion an oxymoron what is america's track record in the arab world and is invoking security . wealthy b

and of course i'm a historian i know very well the holocaust took place. but i think such laws are. penalizing criminalizing idiots. are very very detrimental to any kind of free debate because where is it and what is the next thing that has to be determined in court for example who was responsible for the outbreak of the first world war where you could say it was russia it was england of france all. austria hungary or the system as such i mean are we then in a few years going to have to have it having to go to court to determine how to settle historical questions who was responsible for stalin. was it the bush of existing was of lenin was it himself or somebody else i mean these things have to be discussed openly in a fair public debates it's not a question for courts to decide with that said what do you predict the future is for freedom of speech and media censorship in europe it is being decided right now . i'm determined to win. and so all my my comrades in arms we are determined to win if we lose it will be gone thank you very much for your time. this

and that they use it for holocaust. i remind you second thing, american during the cold war, they don't -- they don't want to involve with soviet union because they called it an evil empire. we cannot share our business, our interest, our money, our technology with soviet union. but what about today? china communist regime. that's. thank you. >> thank you, harry. our final speaker before we go -- before we go to questions will be reggie littlejohn who's founder and president of women's rights without frontiers. he has been a true leader in trying to bring the focus on the gender side issue to china and i would like to now yield to her. >> it's an honor to be a part of this panel. and i want to give my thanks especially to congressman christopher smith who has been tirelessly advocating and sometimes very lonely on the policy on the hill. when this policy ends and i believe it will in our lifeti s lifetimes, the name of christopher smith will always be linked to that victory. this is a picture of a woman named lu dan. lu

war the moscow bunker museum that's giving visitors a first hand experience of the horror of atomic holocaust. and turning to the war is distressing to dollars would have us marriages breaking down we'll look out why it's an opportunity to make a fast bar out of failure. as russia develops its own silicon valley questions are being raised whether the project is really worth investing in r t sophie shevardnadze talks to a leading a team of eight or so also one of the government's key figures in getting the venture online. yes and. mr gum is down thank you for being with us today so why did the authorities decide to build the innovation center from scratch rather than use takes base of science cities switch to moscow region alone has quite a number of good i often joke of skin for instance but i know. what beautiful. firstly this innovation center isn't designed to be the same as a science city in soviet times science cities were built in our country as centers for scientific research the way i see it skolkovo is primarily a commercialization center the military industrial complex was the main

now the holocaust museum anees rail has announced a partnership with google to improve its online world war two era archive the search engine will make it much easier to find hundreds of thousands of photos and documents from the museum on the internet for the project was announced on the eve of holocaust remembrance day on thursday on this day in one thousand nine hundred forty five also which the largest of the nazi concentration camps was liberated by the soviet army it is estimated around six million european jews were murdered by the nazi regime that is history professor john cross explains anti semitism at the time was widespread. what happened however all over occupied europe in the territories that the germans have invaded is that the local population was as the jews were being persecuted local population got drawn into that process of persecution in the benefit it materially from it and. was a reluctant to give shelter to jews who were trying to avoid the german network but seems to me that and they said it isn't was a fairly well ingrained element of people's world outlook at