UNITED NATIONS — Waving the blueprints for Auschwitz and invoking the memory of his own family members murdered by the Nazis, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered his most passionate and public riposte yet to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s questioning of the Holocaust.
The documents he brought to the podium of the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday also included the protocol of the meeting where the Nazis decided on the Final Solution.
Netanyahu tied the Holocaust issue to Iran’s nuclear program and Ahmadinejad’s rejection of Israel’s right to exist, and seemed to tacitly draw a parallel between the world’s treatment of Iran today and its failure to act against Hitler in time.
The Israeli leader came armed with original documents handed to him last month when he visited Germany and launched into an angry denunciation of Ahmadinejad’s comments on the Holocaust. He held up the blueprints including gas chambers and crematoria for Auschwitz-Birkenau.
“Those plans are signed by Hitler’s deputy, Heinrich Himmler himself. Is this, too, a lie?” he asked. The Associated Press
