Arlen Specter: “during the last 2 weeks of August, I had occasion to travel to Europe to discuss with a variety of foreign leaders…”

“during the last 2 weeks of August, I had occasion to travel to Europe to discuss with a variety of foreign leaders subjects of mutual concern. The highlight of the trip was visiting the museum in Warsaw on the Jewish uprising, which occurred on August 1, 1944. That was a time when the Allies were making substantial progress, with the invasion of Normandy having occurred on June 6, 1944. The Soviets were coming in from the east, and the uprising was a valiant, heroic effort by the Jews in the Jewish ghetto to upset the Nazi tyranny. Regrettably, it failed. But for anyone who has any doubt about the Holocaust or about the brutality of the Nazis in putting down the Jewish people, the 6 million Jews who died--and you have preposterous statements coming forth with some regularity, most recently from the President of Iran, doubting the existence of the Holocaust--a visit to the museum in Warsaw on the Jewish uprising will certainly quell any doubts. The facts are established there, with the documentation, with people speaking, those who survived, to tell the grim tale of the Nazi brutality and the existence of the Holocaust.”