Iran’s president said Germany should stop feeling guilty over the Holocaust. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told Der Spiegel in an interview published Sunday that “German people are prisoners of the Holocaust,” and Germany should not allow itself to be held “hostage to the Zionists,” since it is paying reparations.
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