Simon Wiesenthal Center: "Withdraw state award given to Holocaust denier"

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'Withdraw state award given to Holocaust denier'

JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST

Jul. 19, 2007

The Simon Wiesenthal Centre has urged Denmark's Prime Minister, 
Anders Fogh Rasmussen, to void a monetary award by the Arts Council 
at the Danish Ministry of Culture to Erik Haaest, known as the 
"Holocaust Skeptic".

Dr. Shimon Samuels, Wiesenthal Centre's
Director for International Relations, wrote to Rasmussen that "Haaest 
reportedly received this prize for his work on 'The Danish Friekorps 
on the Eastern Front, 1941-1965', hardly a symbol of Danish national 
pride", adding that "Haaest's citations from Holocaust denial 
literature go back to the 1959 volume of the Journal of Historical 
Review published by the institute of the same name, frequented by 
neo-Nazis worldwide."

Another publication reports Haaest as declaring Anne Frank's diary "a swindle".

"Your government's award to Haaest (...)legitimizes (...) Holocaust 
denial, incitement to antisemitism and is an offence to Holocaust 
survivors and to the families of all victims of
Nazism.

"Silence would only be construed by hate mongers as a seal of 
approval", Dr. Samuels concluded.