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The Holocaust Obfuscation movement:


Three state commissions dedicated to the ‘equalization’ of Nazi and Soviet crimes as a project for the European Union



LITHUANIAN COMMISSION:

THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR THE EVALUATION OF THE CRIMES OF THE NAZI AND SOVIET OCCUPATION REGIMES IN LITHUANIA

The Commission helps develop new 'red-brown equivalences' for the Prague Declaration

The Commission speaks for Lithuania at the Prague Declaration sessions

The Commission has the text of the Prague Declaration on its website; Lithuanian version

Teachers & pupils impressed by 'two evils, just the details are different, that’s all'

The Commission urges the Seimas to take up the Prague Declaration

The Seimas proposes the equivalence model for the European Union

Two resignations from the Commission (Dr. Yitzhak Arad and Sir Martin Gilbert), on matters of principle  (listed as 'memberships suspended' on the ICECNSORL site)

Some officials of the Commission complain about treatment in the European Union (BNS report, 15 April 2008)

The Commission spearheads the effort to persuade the European Parliament to adopt 'equivalence' of Nazi and Soviet crimes (BNS report of 13 October 2009)




Critiques of the Commission:

                                                                                                                                           

                                                                                                                 Holocaust survivors expressed concerns about the commission at its inception in 1998; PDF



and...

Simon Wiesenthal Center statement (Jerusalem 1998)

Efraim Zuroff (Jerusalem 2005)

Efraim Zuroff (Jerusalem 2007)

Yad Vashem (Jerusalem 2008)

Jewish Community of Lithuania and Uni0n of Former Ghetto and Concentration Camp Prisoners (Vilnius 2008)

Geoff Vasil (Vasiliauskas) (Vilnius 2008)

Valdas Vasiliauskas (Vilnius 2008);  English translation

Avi Friedman (Jerusalem 2009)

Dovid Katz (Vilnius 2009a)

Dovid Katz (Vilnius 2009b)

Shimon Samuels (Paris 2009, presented at Warsaw); alternate link

Jonathan Freedland (London 2009)

Clemens Heni (Berlin 2009)PDF




LATVIAN COMMISSION:

LATVIA'S HISTORY COMMISSION


Critiques of the Commission:

Abraham Foxman (Washington 1999)




ESTONIAN COMMISSION:

ESTONIAN INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION FOR INVESTIGATION OF CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY                                                                  


Critiques of the Commission:

Anton Weiss-Wendt (Oslo 2008)




NOTE: Critique of the political campaigns waged by these commissions does not imply negation of individual accomplishments by teachers, researchers and others who may have cooperated with each over the years, or of these commissions' earlier series of academic publications.










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