Holocaust Deniers Crawling Out of Shadows

Holocaust deniers are crawling out of the shadows on an increasingly regular basis. One such Holocaust denier, who claims that no Jews were murdered by Hitler, and that Hitler was actually financed by the Jews, wants to form a political party in Japan.

A Japanese political activist who holds radical anti-Semitic views, Richard Koshimizu, has set up a political party named "Independence Party," and is planning to deliver a public speech in the city of Kyoto this week.

Koshimizu operates a website in which he claims that no Jews were murdered during the Holocaust, and that only 60,000 Jews died of diseases in the war. According to the site, Adolf Hitler was the grandson of Solomon Meyer Rothschild, and the Nazi dictator's rise to power was funded by Rothschild and other Jewish corporations.

Then, there's the anti-Semitic love song that the Swiss government wanted to hold for Iran's Ahmadinejad's benefit. They want to couch it in terms of dialogue, but the Iranians have repeatedly claimed the Holocaust never occurred, while simultaneously claiming and hoping to finish the job by eliminating Israel from the map.

Of course, to believe any of these Holocaust deniers and revisionist histories would mean you'd have to ignore the literally millions of documents and locations throughout Europe that show the Nazis indeed murdered millions of Jews, along with gypsies, gays, and anyone else who got in their way. You'd also have to ignore the discovery of mass graves in the Ukraine that hold the remains of thousands of Jews killed by the Nazis when they occupied the region.