'I still insist the Holocaust is a great lie'

A member of the Egyptian parliamentary committee that is responsible for appointing editors to the state-owned newspapers claims the Holocaust was a rumor started by the U.S. during World War II to ruin Germany's reputation.

"I still insist that the Holocaust is a great lie," said Fathi Shihab Al-Din.

Al-Din's comments came in an interview with the Egyptian weekly Al-Musawwar that was published in March, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute, which monitors and reports on media activity in the troubled Middle East region of the world.

Al-Din is a former Egyptian Shura Council member and current Muslim Brotherhood member.

He described the Holocaust as "the greatest lie of the modern age and the gravest incident of organized historical international blackmail."

Egypt is a flashpoint after the military coup that ousted Muslim Brotherhood president Mohamed Morsi, who is now imprisoned.

MEMRI reported Al-Din previously denied the Holocaust, saying in January on his blog that it was "the greatest fraud in history."

He said during World War II, the Jewish population of Germany was 600,000 to 700,000 and that after the war it was around 500,000.

He said that discrepancy was due to illegal emigration to the U.S.

Automobile accidents also killed some, he noted at the time.

See a report that discusses just exactly what Hitler did during WWII, in "Hitler, God and the Bible."

In the most recent interview, Al-Din said: "Jews control the global media and use it skillfully. Furthermore, they managed to spread the rumor of the Holocaust, which was started by U.S. intelligence, throughout the world, in an attempt to ruin the reputation of Germany and its allies in World War II and as a pretext for dropping the atomic bomb."

He said repeating the story made it "an indisputable sacred truth that no one dare discuss or examine."

Jews, he said. actually exploited "what they called the Holocaust" for political and financial gain.

Al-Din told the publication "the consensus among more honest historians [is that] the chambers contained no lethal gas, and that there were no crematoria either."

His version of events: "Most neutral historians attribute the onset of the Jewish fabrication of the Holocaust to the Allies, when they entered Germany after its defeat in the war – when a soldier pointed to a pile of ashes at the Dachau camp ands aid that it was the ashes of 238,000 people. The Zionists immediately put up two signs on trees at the site, reading: 'Here are the ashes of 238,000 Jews.' This started the lie that has been spread by Jewish propaganda mouthpieces throughout the world."