Estonian Mayor Authors Holocaust Denial Book

(September 16, 2004)

Tiit Madisson, mayor of the town of Lihula, Estonia, has written a book denying the Holocaust, according to local media reports summarized by UCSJ’s Baltic Bureau. The September 7, 2004 editions of the national daily Postimees and the regional paper Meie Maa reported that Mayor Madisson’s book “New World Order” claims that Jews and Masons brought Hitler to power, that Hitler and some of his leading minions were Jews, that there were no mass killings of Jews during the war, and that the supposedly few Jews who did die in the camps were killed by diseases, not poison gas. He also writes that Masons continue to rule Estonia today.

There is no information in the summaries of either article about how the authorities or the local Jewish community have reacted to the publication of this book, which is presumably illegal under Estonia’s anti-incitement laws.

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