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[SPECIAL] Background on Twitter battle: @KatsuyaTakasu vs. @AuschwitzMuseum over #HolocaustDenial

Recompiled from a thread of original tweets.

Background to the recent tweet battle between Dr. Katsuya Takasu & Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum over the alleged Holocaust Denial remarks by a popular Japanese plastic surgeon

WHA'T HAPPENING TODAY (2019)

On the night of March 15 2019, renowned plastic surgeon Katsuya Takasu (高須克弥) agreed "100%" with the notorious video by German-Canadian convict and holocaust denier, Monika Schaefer which claims Nazi Holocaust "in fact did not happen at all."

Video with Japanese subtitles

In the afternoon of the same day, to Dr. Takasu's revived tweet from four years ago asserting that both the Massacre of Nanjing and Auschwitz (=Holocaust) in particular were "fabricated," the official account of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum (@AuschwitzMuseum) were quick to rebut, in Japanese as a rare gesture coming from a global account.

"Auschwitz is a historic fact that continues to warn the hearts of people around the world. The remains of the concentration and extermination camp created by Nazi Germany represent the greatest tragedy in human history,”

Auschwitz Museum account tweeted in rebut as translated by Kyodo English.

The media picked up quickly as well, like Kyodo English (@kyodo_english), which is quite rare as they tend NOT to take on negative stories about the powerful doctor AND celebrity who is influential and prestigious enough to be invited to the upcoming Imperial tea party event as a distinguished guest.

WHAT HAPPENED TWO YEARS AGO (2017)

Two years ago, I advised in great length to Dr. Takasu to publish a statement to the global audience clearly refuting that he is NOT a holocaust denier and that he upholds the Helsinki Declaration and Nuremberg Protocol as an established doctor, trusting that his denial is only based on mechanical factors (which can still be easily refuted). Back then in 2017, due to several of his tweets, Jewish human rights organization, the Simon Wiesenthal Center (@simonwiesenthal) demanded that Dr. Takasu be revoked of his membership from AACS or American Association of Cosmetic Surgery. The group reportedly complied, according to reports by the Jerusalem Post.

Dr. Takasu and I met in person once to help remediate this situation in attempt to reconcile and correct his behavior, detailing out the drafting process of the global public statement, mainly to restore honor to the Japanese populaceWe talked in great length and agreed that we should follow through with our commitment. But Mr. Takasu failed to commit and instead made 'informal' peace with the SWC and the Israeli Embassy, according to his own tweets (translated), which I was only told ex post facto.

With no transparency or clarity on WHEN, WHAT or HOW it was agreed with the SWC and/or Israeli Embassy, Dr. Takasu went on with his holocaust denial tweets. To this day, he has NOT removed ANY of his alleged tweets, as can be witnessed in this Global Voices article.

Then just four days ago, almost two years from our meeting, Dr. Takasu decides to praise a convicted Holocaust Denier and declares he will "fight" with those who provoke him, including the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum. What he doesn't know or appear to know is that this means he stands against the whole of Jewish community, including the SWC and the Israeli Embassy or even the Israeli Government.

Soon after, the Auschwitz Museum rebutted, again, in Japanese.

"Rejection of the Holocaust is denial of facts.They are lies accelerated by ideological hatred and antisemitism." (my translation)

Today, I find no reason to advise him on anything anymore.

FINAL ATTEMPT (2019)

As my last attempt, I recently advised against him on his suggestion refuting the actions of the infamous "Operation T4" or "AktionT4" during and after the so-called "Final Phase" in Hitler's Final Solution.

In this tweet he suggested that the Nazi Regime was "supportive" of the disabled, elderly, women and children as "appointment of [Reich Minister of Propaganda] Goebbels and [Gen.] Rommel, who were also disabled," suggests, as he implied. He said they all "fought collectively and willingly to protect their motherland at the very end of the war.”

I cited a document (a Japanese brochure) on DGPPN (German Association for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics) where they admitted to the contrary that the German psychiatric community actively engaged in and supported "AktionT4" and other Forced Euthanasia programs during and after such programs were terminated.

The admission in Japan was made in a form of a "Travelling Exhibition" where the Association travels around the world along with whole exhibition materials to show that atrocities were indeed committed by the psychiatric and medical community in large in the Nazi Germany. This event took place in in 2015 in conjunction with the General Assembly Meeting of the JSPN or Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology held in Osaka.

DGPPN Official Website | [Japanese Brochure of the Osaka JSPN event]

I also shared with him the note of apology from the DGPPN Chairman Frank Schneider to the victims which was delivered at the Memorial ceremony in Berlin in 2010. Still, Dr. Takasu has shown no remorse or regret.

English Translation of the speech | [Japanese Translation]


DECLARATION

Dr. Takasu insists that he is ready to fight on or provoke others when they aren't provoking him.

So be it. I waited 2 years and this is what I get in utter disrespect.

I will not take any part of it but find myself reaffirmed that I stand on the just side with right cause and justifiable reasons.

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