
An Egyptian journalist wrote an op-ed claiming that Hitler only murdered between 100,000-600,000 Jews – and not six million – and that he was justified in doing so because Jews had seized control of Germany, spreading pornography and homosexuality as well as engineering the country’s economic collapse. Salah Montasser’s article, published earlier in the year in the Egyptian daily Al-Masri Al-Yawm and translated this week by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), was titled “The Question that Everyone Ignores: Why Did Hitler Murder the Jews?” Citing arguments made by “a knowledgeable German friend” of his, Montasser argues that it’s highly improbable that Hitler murdered six million Jews since Germany’s Jewish population before the war was less than a quarter of that number. “Jewish…