That Makes It Better
Holocaust denial from Austria:
The Vienna city council on Wednesday lifted the immunity of a politician who suggested that Nazi gas chambers were found in Poland, but not anywhere else in the Third Reich of Adolf Hitler. The council voted unanimously to strip John Gudenus, a legislator in Austria's upper house of parliament, of protection from prosecution for his remarks.
Seem OK - a bad apple slips through, people take action, everything's fixed. Except Gudenus's little contribution was meant as an non-apology apology for saying that the existence of gas chambers during the Holocaust should be "seriously debated" - in April! So under pressure, he admitted that there probably gas chambers in Poland but that they definitely didn't exist anywhere else. All of this begs the question - how is it that he hasn't been pressured to resign? In Austria.
The Vienna city council on Wednesday lifted the immunity of a politician who suggested that Nazi gas chambers were found in Poland, but not anywhere else in the Third Reich of Adolf Hitler. The council voted unanimously to strip John Gudenus, a legislator in Austria's upper house of parliament, of protection from prosecution for his remarks.
Seem OK - a bad apple slips through, people take action, everything's fixed. Except Gudenus's little contribution was meant as an non-apology apology for saying that the existence of gas chambers during the Holocaust should be "seriously debated" - in April! So under pressure, he admitted that there probably gas chambers in Poland but that they definitely didn't exist anywhere else. All of this begs the question - how is it that he hasn't been pressured to resign? In Austria.
