David Irving finds a kindred spirit in Holocaustquestioning bishop

Jan. 29, 2009
There is support albeit from an unlikely quarter for Pope Benedict XVI after he chose to rehabilitate Bishop Richard Williamson who had questioned the scale of the Holocaust.
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