Holocaust happened

"The only gassing that took place in the camps was to kill the lice that caused typhus. Gassing was a life-saving measure, not a homicidal one."

This, printed in The Korea Times edition under the headline "Holocaust exaggerated" by a writer identified only as "Yvette," is the most cynical humiliation of Holocaust victims I have ever seen in my life.

I understand the publication of anonymous internet scribbles on your hospitable pages is intended to represent the "voices of the people."

But the contribution of "Yvette" is not an opinion in a spectrum of "diverse views." It is the denial of facts in the context of the Holocaust that are historically proven beyond a doubt.

As a German born one generation after those indescribable horrors, it is my duty to fight against such humiliation of the victims, the very worst of all cynicisms.

Michael Bergmann

German teacher in Seoul