Middle East Focus: The Holocaust: Schindler of Tehran and Paris, Ahmadinejad………

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The Holocaust: Schindler of Tehran and Paris, Ahmadinejad………

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“Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist who employed over a thousand Jews during the Holocaust in an effort to save them from concentration camps, was memorialized in a famous book and Academy Award winning movie. His Iranian equivalent, Abdol-Hossein Sardari, is now getting some of his due press. In a book that troves through archival material, the story of how Mr Sardari used his diplomatic position in Paris at the time of the Nazi occupation to get passports for Iranian Jews and wove tall tales of faux-scientific stories to help evade the German authorities. Mr Sardari, who was Muslim, was posted to Paris in 1941 and served as the highest member of the small Iranian consulate at the time of the Nazi invasion. Because the Germans and Iranians had sizeable, and financially significant, trade contracts, the German considered the Iranians to be an Arayan race, and therefore an ally in their effort to rid Europe of what they viewed as lesser ethnicities………..”

Interesting that only a year or two ago Iranian state television showed a locally-produced series about the story of a young Iranian diplomat saving a Jewish woman in Europe during the Holocaust and ending up marrying her. I remember posting about it here. The same television that is run by Ahmadinejad’s government. Yet he raises questions about the Holocaust. This is one reason why I suspect he is not serious about the issue, about the doubts he claims or hints to have. Nobody in his position can be that stupid. Or can they?
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