The Holocaust is a historical reality and it is a terrible crime, but Hitler was not fully aware, because the organizer of the genocide, Heinrich Himmler, not telling the whole truth. Said at a meeting in Warsaw, the British revisionist historian David Irving, a scholar of Nazism, already sentenced several times for having denied the Holocaust. Irving, 72 years, is visiting the places in Poland of the Second World War to lead a group of American tourists, British and Germans, and last Monday had a meeting behind closed doors with a dozen people invited to a large hotel in Warsaw. One of the guests was Ilan Goren, Berlin correspondent of Israeli television network, but, not being able to arrive on time, has given the invitation to Mr Piotr Zychowicz of Rzeczpospolita. In this way the Polish media, stayed away from the town during his visit, they were able to have first-hand information. The organized tour of the historic in Poland has aroused fierce controversy. "I deny being a Holocaust denier," Irving said at the beginning meeting, denying even to be anti-Semitic
. The historian has spoken several times of death of 2.5 million Jews
part of Operation Reinhard (Nazi code given to the plan of liquidation of the Jews in Poland) and the extermination of hundreds of thousands of Jews in concentration camp Treblinka. According to Irving, "the entire Second World War was a major Holocaust that caused the suffering of all peoples." The historian has attributed to Hitler the blame for all the atrocities of the Nazis, but said that was not made aware by colleagues of all the facts. "So for example - he said - was not fully informed of the extermination of the Jews, which was organized by the head SS Heinrich Himmler. "
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