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| Ken Livingstone makes fresh Hitler-Zionist claims while on way into court for hearing on past Nazi comments | Ken Livingstone makes fresh Hitler-Zionist claims while on way into court for hearing on past Nazi comments |
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| Ken Livingstone has caused fresh controversy in the ongoing saga of his comments on Hitler and Zionism, as he arrived for a two-day private disciplinary hearing with the Labour Party on the matter. | Ken Livingstone has caused fresh controversy in the ongoing saga of his comments on Hitler and Zionism, as he arrived for a two-day private disciplinary hearing with the Labour Party on the matter. |
| Almost a year after he told the BBC’s Vanessa Feltz Show that Hitler had been a Zionist in the early 1930s, and had helped German Jews emigrate to Palestine, this morning he told reporters that actual Nazi policy at the time went even further. | Almost a year after he told the BBC’s Vanessa Feltz Show that Hitler had been a Zionist in the early 1930s, and had helped German Jews emigrate to Palestine, this morning he told reporters that actual Nazi policy at the time went even further. |
| “The [Nazi] SS set up training camps so that German Jews who were going to go there could be trained to cope with a very different sort of country," he said. | |
| “When the Zionist movement asked the Nazi Government, would they stop Jewish Rabbis doing their sermons in Yiddish and make them do it in Hebrew, he [Hitler] agreed to that. | “When the Zionist movement asked the Nazi Government, would they stop Jewish Rabbis doing their sermons in Yiddish and make them do it in Hebrew, he [Hitler] agreed to that. |
| “He also passed a law that said the Zionist flag and the Swastika were the only flags that could be flown in Germany. | “He also passed a law that said the Zionist flag and the Swastika were the only flags that could be flown in Germany. |
| “And then they started selling Mauser pistols to the underground Jewish army." | “And then they started selling Mauser pistols to the underground Jewish army." |
| Mr Livingstone continued: “So you had, right up until the start of the Second World War, real collaboration. | |
| “And when, in July 1937, many senior Nazis gathered at their Foreign Offices, saying we should stop sending German Jews to Palestine because it risks creating a Jewish state, a directive comes directly from Hitler saying, ‘no, continue with this policy.’ | |
| “Everyone who studies history just knows this. It is true.” | “Everyone who studies history just knows this. It is true.” |
| Mr Livingstone faces a charge of engaging in conduct that was grossly detrimental to the party following his controversial comments about Adolf Hitler. | Mr Livingstone faces a charge of engaging in conduct that was grossly detrimental to the party following his controversial comments about Adolf Hitler. |
| He is being represented at the hearing by human rights lawyer Michael Mansfield, but has admitted he expected to be expelled from the party at the end of it. | He is being represented at the hearing by human rights lawyer Michael Mansfield, but has admitted he expected to be expelled from the party at the end of it. |