UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brandished at the UN yesterday Nazi-era documents on the extermination of Jews, dramatically rebutting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s denial of the Holocaust.
“Yesterday, the man who called the Holocaust a lie spoke from this podium,” Netanyahu said in an address to the UN General Assembly.
“To those who refused to come and to those who left in protest, I commend you,” he said.
“But to those who gave this Holocaust denier a hearing, I say on behalf of my people, the Jewish people, and decent people everywhere: Have you no shame? Have you no decency?”
Netanyahu held aloft two documents — a copy of the minutes of the Wansee Conference, in which Nazi officials planned the Final Solution that led to the killing of six million Jews and the original blueprints of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps.
He received the blueprints, discovered last year, during a visit to Germany in August.
