Egyptian Journalist Justifies Hitler’s Actions Against Jews; Sparks Criticism From Two Colleagues | MEMRI

Salah Montasser, an Egyptian author and journalist who writes for the official daily Al-Ahram and for other Egyptian dailies, recently published an article in the Egyptian daily Al-Masri Al-Yawm titled “The Question that Everyone Ignores: Why Did Hitler Murder the Jews?” In it, he argued that Jewish propaganda has managed to convince the world that Hitler murdered six million Jews, although this number seems “implausible,” especially since Germany’s Jewish population before the war was less than a quarter of that number. Citing arguments made by “a knowledgeable German friend” of his, he wrote that the Nazis actually killed only 100,000 – 600,000 Jews, much less than the number of Algerians killed in this country’s war of independence against the French and the number of Palestinians that the Jews themselves killed in the conflict between the two peoples. He added, still citing the German friend, that Hitler had reasons for hating the Jews: although they constituted only 2% of the German population, they took over the media, the judicial system, the press, and the film industry, as well as theater and literature; spread%