Interaction With Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
On September 20, 2006, the Council on Foreign Relations hosted a small meeting of select council members with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. While giving his speech, President Ahmadinejad expressed doubt that the holocaust had occurred. Greenberg responded: "Listen, I went through Dachau during the war. To suggest it didn't occur is simply a lie." President Ahmadinejad responded by asking if Greenberg was old enough to have participated in the liberation of Dachau.
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