Jan Bernhoff
Swedish 'Holocaust' non-believer, * 1971 in
Umeå/Sweden
B. grew up in Haparanda in northern Sweden by the Finnish border. He studied history and languages at the university of
Lund, Sweden, and finished his studies at Teachers' University College in Stockholm in
1999. Hith Masters thesis on the ' Holocaust' was met with suspicion and
hostility by his examiners at the University of Lund. He therefore decided to teach computers at
the
adult education Åsö
Community College in Stockholm. In the summer of 2006, he entered a cartoon into Iran's
' Holocaust' cartoon contest. On
Monday, December 11, 2006,
B. gave a lecture at the two-day ' Holocaust' conference in Theran/Iran, where he alleged that 300,000 Jews died in the
'Holocaust' during World War II as opposed to the number of six million commonly used by
academics.
Although
B. did not teach history as a subject at the Åsö college, and
gave this Tehran speech on his spare time, local politicians and the school management
immediately questioned if he could continue as a teacher and branded him as a
'Holocaust' teacher'. College principle Britt-Marie Johansson told Swedish
radio: "I think he will have a hard time at school since so many students and colleagues have contacted me about his participation at the
conference". Therefore Johansson launched a probe and suspended B.
on
behalf of
the city of Stockholm, his employer. However, that was hard since Swedish
Minister for Schools Jan Bjorklund, who
was in charge of education issues in the cabinet, said B.'s participation in the Iranian conference was
unacceptable, but that he had no constitutional right to intervene in the
case.
The primary complaint against
B.’s lecture
entitled 'The Holocaust Demography' was
the fact that he said that, based upon his research and that of others, the allegation that 6,000,000 Jews died during World War II cannot be backed up by factual data and that the figure is considerably less than
that. In January, 2007, under pressure from Jewish groups, Jan was
definively bribed to resign from his job in return for compensation from the City of
Stockholm, obtained with the help of his trade union representatives.
B.'s
website:  .
B.'s 55-page document 'The Holocaust
Demography':
ABC
Letzte Änderung / Last update:
21.04.2009
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