Canadian Woman Arrested in Germany for Questioning Holocaust in Video

B’nai Brith Canada reports that Monika Schaefer, a woman from Alberta, Canada, was arrested in Germany, a country that forbids questioning the Holocaust.  She could be facing a 5-year prison term.  The Jewish group, B’nai Brith, filed complaints with German officials against Schaefer because she committed “anti-Semitic incitement.”  This was because Schaefer had made a video in 2016 entitled Sorry Mom, I Was Wrong about the Holocaust, that went viral with 160,000 views. In the video (see below), she says she regrets reproaching her German mother for not doing something to stop the death camps.Later, however,  as she expressed it, she learned that the Holocaust was the “biggest and most pernicious and persistent lie in all of history.”  She said that the detention camps definitely existed but live prisoners were needed, not dead, so that they could work in the factories to produce for the war effort.  She says the only gas used in the camps was to kill disease-carrying lice on clothing.  For this, she was imprisoned. …