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GO GO GO!
Mar 2001
time: 23:34
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Holocaust exaggerated: Gibson dad
From correspondents in New York
19feb04
A WEEK before the United States release of Mel Gibson's controversial movie, The Passion of the Christ, the filmmaker's father has repeated claims the Holocaust was exaggerated.
Hutton Gibson's comments, made in a telephone interview with New York radio talk show host Steve Feuerstein, come at an awkward time for the actor-director who has been trying to deflect criticism from Jewish groups that his film might inflame anti-Semitic sentiment.
In his interview on WSNR radio's Speak Your Piece, to be broadcast on Monday, Hutton Gibson, argued that many European Jews counted as death camp victims of the Nazi regime had in fact fled to countries like Australia and the United States.
"It's all - maybe not all fiction - but most of it is," he said, adding that the gas chambers and crematoria at camps like Auschwitz would not have been capable of exterminating so many people.
"Do you know what it takes to get rid of a dead body? To cremate it?" he said. "It takes a litre of petrol and 20 minutes. Now, six million of them? They (the Germans) did not have the gas to do it. That's why they lost the war."
Gibson's father caused a furore last year when he made similar remarks in a New York Times article.
In a television interview with Diane Sawyer this week, Mel Gibson accused the Times of taking advantage of his father, and he warned Sawyer against broaching the subject again.
"He's my father. Gotta leave it alone Diane. Gotta leave it alone," Gibson said, while offering his own perspective on the Holocaust.
"Do I believe that there were concentration camps where defenceless and innocent Jews died cruelly under the Nazi regime? Of course I do; absolutely," he said. "It was an atrocity of monumental proportion."
During his lengthy radio interview, Hutton Gibson, 85, said Jews were out to create "one world religion and one world government" and outlined a conspiracy theory involving Jewish bankers, the US Federal Reserve and the Vatican, among others.
The Passion, which gets its US release on February 25, purports to be a faithful and graphic account of Christ's last 12 hours on earth.
Jewish leaders who have attended advance screenings have voiced concerns that its portrayal of the Jews' role in Christ's execution could stir up anti-Semitic feeling.
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from http://www.theaustralian.news.com.a...55E1702,00.html
I think the media has been blowing the whole Passion thing out of proportion... it's a ****ing movie people...
But I am not sure Jewish groups are all that wrong when talking about Gibson's motives for making this movie or Gibson's feelings about Jews. Mel's dad is one of those Holocaust denial morons... I wonder how far the apple fell from the tree.
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Caligastia
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It's quite possible Gibson has been influenced in this way by his father, but I'll reserve judgement on the movie till I see it.
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Caligastia
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I guess it depends on how close Mel is with his dad.
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Caligastia
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I think we should argue about this for the sake of arguing.
Gibson is a filthy anti-semite.
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FS*
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It's pure sensationalism. The media has no business dragging family and related personal issues into the spotlight.
Whether the man is misguided, senile or whatever, this is a private issue between father and son.
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Edan
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Well, for me, the jury's still out on Mel Gibson. There is this disturbingly vague statement by Mel:
quote:
'You're going to have to go on record. The Holocaust happened, right?"
Peggy Noonan asks of Mel Gibson in the Reader's Digest for March.
Gibson: "I have friends and parents of friends who have numbers on their
arms. The guy who taught me Spanish was a Holocaust survivor. He worked
in a concentration camp in France. Yes, of course. Atrocities happened. War
is horrible. The Second World War killed tens of millions of people. Some of
them were Jews in concentration camps. Many people lost their lives. In the
Ukraine, several million starved to death between 1932 and 1933. During the
last century, 20 million people died in the Soviet Union." |
which not only tries to cast the holocaust as just any other "war is hell" evil of war, and doesn't specifically state that there was a planned operation to commit genocide and no mention of death camps, there have also been comparisons made to some holocaust deniers who admit that Jews died in concentration camps but who claim that the number of dead Jews is like 20X too large.
Given that he's trying to be "on the record", you would think he would try to avoid being vague.
and of course, in light of the first post in the thread:
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his dad, Gibson says, "My dad taught me my faith, and I believe what he
taught me. The man never lied to me in his life." |
 
But like I said, for me, the jury's still out... Maybe Mel will try harder not to be vague the next time he's on the record...
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21-02-2004 01:06
), so Mel Gibson shouldn't be painted with that brush. I have an uncle who's totally off his rocker, and I try not to hold it against his family.
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