Anti-Semitism in 2009?

It's almost 65 years since the end of World War II, yet today's young people are so ignorant about the events of those times, that it makes me wonder what is being taught in the schools throughout the world. Recently, there was a YouTube video of Bishop Williamson, a Briton living in Argentina, denies that anyone was ever killed in a gas chamber. He uses bogus engineering ideas indicating how this would have been impossible. He also doesn't believe that 6 million Jews died in the concentration camps in spite of massive documents and evidence attesting to that number. Holocaust deniers have defended him, in addition to neo-Nazis. If you read the blog entries below the You Tube video, you can read the remarks of people from all over the world defending him and his views. The Vatican stirred up this hornet's nest of controversy by issuing a decree to revoke the excommunication of 4 bishops from the ultraconservative Society of St. Pius X, including Bishop Richard Williamson. They now want him to distance himself publicly from his positions on the Shoah or aelse he would not be allowed to serve as a bishop in the Roman Catholic church. When his ideas surfaced, apparently his Holiness was not aware of his views until there was an outcry following his interview with a Swedish television station.
Williamson also questioned what happened on 9/11 thinking it was an inside job. Re. the Holocaust, he claimed that no more than 300,000 Jews perished and that there were "no gas chambers."

As a child of two parents who survived the Holocaust, I find his views to be objectionable and hurtful on many levels. If he denies the amount of people who were murdered in the Holocaust, he should go to a Holocaust museum and see the glaring evidence, including lists of Jews round up for the camps supplied by the Germans. Also, the # of 6 million is without a doubt accurate. What does Bishop Williamson think happened to all of those missing Jews? Where did they go if they were not exterminated? If he knew history, he would recall that no one wanted any of the Jews who tried to escape the German death camps, including supposedly "neutral" Switzerland. The collaborators of the Germans were just as happy assisting the Germans in killing Jews and gleefully took their homes, valuables and property.

This story just underscores how little information is out there about the Holocaust. There are numerous teaching tools available for people who want to learn more about the war and its victims. I'm shocked to read comments that relate to popular films and not books questioning topics on the Holocaust. I recommend that "deniers" out there read a history book and then reassess their opinions.