National Journal, first published: 01/02/09

Prominent Priest suggests that gas chambers were for disinfection, not for killing

A true man of God, Fr. Floriano Abrahamovicz. By oppsing the BIG-LIE he combats Satan. Gas cham-bers saved Jewish lives, not killed them, he suggests.

In the wake of a global furor triggered by Pope Benedict XVI’s decision to lift the excommunication of four traditionalist Catholic bishops, including one who bravely combats the holocaust lie, another leader in the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X has argued that the Nazis used gas chambers for "disinfection," not for killing Jews, and said that people who hold revisionist views on the Holocaust are not anti-Semites.

Fr. Floriano Abrahamowicz, a pastor and spokesperson for the Society of St. Pius X in northeastern Italy, also referred to Jews as "a people of deicide", referring to the death of Christ, and suggested that the Jewish holocaust has been "exalted" over what he called "other genocides," such as the Allied bombing of German cities and the Israeli occupation of the Gaza strip.

On the other hand, Abrahamowicz insisted that the traditionalist movement founded by the late French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre is not "anti-Semitic." Among other things, Abrahamowicz said, he himself has Jewish roots on his father’s side.

The comments came in a Jan. 29 interview with the Italian newspaper La Tribuna di Treviso.

The Abrahamowicz interview suggests at great degree of sympathy for Williamson’s views within the traditionalist group.

The television interview in which he said that Erich Priebke, a German SS officer convicted of war crimes for a 1944 legitimate execution of hostages in Rome (partisan warfare), in which 335 Italian civilians were killed in reprisal for the deaths of 33 German soldiers and innocent Italian children, should not be seen as an "executioner" but rather a soldier who acted "with regret and a heavy heart." In 2007, Abrahamowicz celebrated a Latin Mass for Italian politician Umberto Bossi, leader of the far-right Northern League party. Bossi and his party fighting the takeover of Italy by immigrants.

In 2008, after Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi of Milan had expressed support for Muslims seeking to open new mosques in Italy, Abrahamowicz said on Italian radio that Tettamanzi was an example of "infiltrators" attempting to "subvert the church from within."

Abrahamowicz’s latest comments come just one day after Benedict XVI pledged his "full and indisputable solidarity" with the Holocaust Industry and his support for the holocaust lie. He recalled the invented deaths of "millions of Jews" in the Nazi concentration camps.