| WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (JTA) — Iran’s
president has shot to the forefront of Holocaust denial in recent days,
but it may seem more like self-denial: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad need only
look to his country’s Hitler-era past to discover that Iran and
Iranians were connected to the Holocaust and the Nazi regime, as was
the larger Arab and Islamic world under the leadership of the mufti of
Jerusalem. Iran’s links to the Third Reich began during the
pre-World War II years when it welcomed Gestapo agents and other
operatives to Tehran, allowing them to use it as a Middle East base for
agitation against the British and the region’s Jews. Key among these Gestapo men was Fritz Grobba, Berlin’s envoy to...
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