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Mel Gibsons father is a NAZI!
> Mitch Albom on Mel Gibson and his father
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> Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 11:06:44 -0500
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> BY MITCH ALBOM DETROIT FREE PRESS COLUMNIST
> My sister married a wonderful guy. His father was a Hungarian Jew. During
> World War II, he and his eight brothers and sisters were imprisoned in
Nazi
> concentration camps. Some were killed in gas chambers. Others were put on
a
> boat that was deliberately sunk. By the war's end, my brother-in-law's
> father was the only one left.
> For years, his wife would find bread stuffed under his pillow, a habit
from
> Nazi starvation. Every now and then some nut case says the Holocaust was
> faked. Usually, you dismiss him as pathetic.
> Last week, however, a man named Hutton Gibson told a national radio host
> that the Holocaust never happened, that there were no concentration camps,
> only "work camps," and that Jews basically made the whole thing up. Hutton
> Gibson is Mel Gibson's father. So this nut case must be addressed.
> From Auschwitz to Brooklyn?
> He must be addressed because his son has made a movie called "The Passion
of
> the Christ" depicting Jesus' last hours. There are fears the movie will
> stoke anti-Semitism. I have not seen the film yet -- it opens this week --
> so I can pass no judgment on it. But I have heard his father. And he needs
> no movie to spew hatred. Jews "are after one world religion and one world
> government" Hutton Gibson declared. He said Federal Reserve Chairman Alan
> Greenspan, who is Jewish, should be hung. He said Holocaust museums were
"a
> gimmick to collect money." In fact, he called the entire Holocaust
> "fiction." He said Jews weren't killed, "they simply got up and left! They
> were all over the Bronx and Brooklyn and Sydney and Los Angeles. They have
> to . . . go where's there's money."
> That would be news to my brother-in-law's aunt, another Holocaust
survivor
> who, thanks to Nazi experiments, was left sterile, unable to have
children.
> She still bears a Nazi number burned into her arm. I suppose Hutton Gibson
> would call that "a tattoo she got in the Bronx."
> Now the elder Gibson is not new to this stuff. He writes books and
magazine
> articles denying the Holocaust and scorching the Jewish faith. And I am
not
> saying Mel Gibson believes what his father does. But he needs to say so
> himself. A time for action instead, to date, Gibson has refused to fully
> refute his father. He acknowledges the Holocaust, but says, "Nothing can
> drive a wedge between me and my blood. He's my father. I love him."
> That's fine. But denying hatred does not cancel love. By his own doing,
> Gibson has put himself on a stage where he has new obligations. He's not
> promoting a "Lethal Weapon" movie here, where he's a crazed cop who swears
> and drinks and sleeps with women (all pretty non-Christian stuff, by the
> way). No. He has made a deeply religious movie, a lightning rod for
> Christians and Jews, one he claims was inspired by his faith, including
> "going back to the things I was raised with." One presumes his father did
> some of that raising. Mel Gibson insists he is not anti-Semitic. He can
> prove it by declaring his father's words are wrong. How would Gibson feel
if
> his father had been gassed, shot or hung in Auschwitz or Dachau, instead
of
> his luckier fate, enjoying a good, long life hurling insults at others?
> The reason Nazism existed is because people lived in denial. If you visit
> the site of concentration camps today, you will be astounded by how close
> neighborhoods were to the gates. Yet no one did anything -- even as
innocent
> people were murdered a stone's throw away. No one asked Mel Gibson to
become
> a spokesman on faith. He did that himself. Now that he has hopped on
center
> stage, he can't simply hear what he wants. He has an obligation to
publicly
> shoot down his father's words. After all, Gibson said he made his movie
> because he could no longer deny his faith.
> Imagine someone denying your existence.
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