Merkel challenges Pope on holocaust
Updated on 03 February 2009
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has entered the row over the Catholic church and holocaust denials by demanding the pope give a "very clear" rejection of them.
Ms Merkel said she "does not believe" there has been "sufficient" clarification after the re-instatement of British-born bishop Richard Williamson, who has questioned whether six million Jews were gassed in Nazi concentration camps.
German-born Pope Benedict XVI last week expressed his "full and indisputable solidarity" with Jews and warned against any denial of the horror of the holocaust.
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