| Germany counters Holocaust conference |
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| Written by Spiegel Online | |
| Sunday, 10 December 2006 | |
 As the world looks on with concern, Tehran kicked off its Holocaust conference on Monday. Berlin, too, is hosting a conference. The German one, though, is aimed at keeping the Holocaust from becoming a matter for political debate.Germany, too, is holding a counter conference on Monday. While Thomas Krüger, head of Germany's Federal Agency for Civic Education -- which is sponsoring the event -- is wary of giving the Tehran gathering too much credence, he says: "The denial or questioning of the Holocaust cannot remain uncommented. We have to do what we can to counter this current before it begins to make inroads into our society." Especially concerning for Krüger and the Germans is the fact that neo-Nazis in Germany have shown solidarity with Ahmadinejad and even waved Iranian flags during the World Cup tournament in Germany last summer. Indeed, Islamism and neo-Nazism are two sides of the same Holocaust denial coin, Krüger says.
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