Richard Williamson is a British Bishop and Holocaust denier who in addition to publicly rejecting the existence of gas chambers during the Holocaust, has charged Jews with seeking world domination and Devil worship. Moreover, Williamson has praised Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel.
In 1988, the Catholic Church excommunicated Bishop Williamson for his consecration, which occurred without papal consent in defiance of Pope John Paul II. However, the Church lifted his excommunication in January 2009, the same month as a Swedish TV interview aired of him denying the mass murders of the Holocaust.
In response to international condemnation, the Vatican denied any knowledge of the Bishop’s anti-Semitic views prior to reversing his excommunication. The Bishop has still not complied with the Vatican’s order to “unequivocally and publicly” withdraw his comments and distance himself from his opinions on this matter.
The Bishop frequently uses Revisionist thinking to justify his views, frequently quoting the pseudoscientific and discredited report by American execution technician Fred A. Leuchter, who wrote in his report that the Nazi gas chambers did not exist. This is a dangerous new trend in anti-Semitism, with discredited documents being quoted publicly as fact, leading to an unchallenged acceptance of the original fabrications.
German authorities are currently seeking to press charges against Bishop Williamson for Holocaust denial given that his Swedish TV interview took place in Germany.
"I believe that the historical evidence is strongly against, is hugely against 6 million Jews having been deliberately gassed in gas chambers as a deliberate policy of Adolf Hitler…I think that 200,000 to 300,000 Jews perished in Nazi concentration camps, but none of them in gas chambers."
