Louie Gohmert: “There is a great deal going on, and I think the first thing that needs to be addressed is the 70th anniversary of…”

“There is a great deal going on, and I think the first thing that needs to be addressed is the 70th anniversary of something that should never have happened in civilized society. This is the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz death camp. As a schoolboy growing up in east Texas, later attending Texas A&M, and especially in my time, my 4 years in the United States Army, as we discussed and looked at World War II, things that had occurred then--I was a history major and was with the Army for 4 years and majored in history. It was just always amazing. How could people who said they were civilized kill 6 million of any race, gender, national origin? How could that happen? But it did happen. On learning that Eisenhower required people from the surrounding villages to be brought in to help clean up concentration camps, death camps--as I understood the reason--was so no one could ever deny that the death camps occurred. I thought that seemed ridiculous. How could anybody deny the Holocaust? There aren't all that many survivors, but there are enough, and the evidence is there, and it clearly happened. But just as Hitler showed, if any lie is told often enough, people begin to believe it, especially if it is even printed. Here is something that was in print yesterday from a man named Martin Greenfield from foxnews.com, and these are Martin Greenfield's words. Mr. Greenfield said: Seventy years ago, I was in a Nazi concentration camp.…”