Oliver Stone: Jewish control of the media is preventing free Holocaust debate

Hitler did not kill millions of Jews by himself. in fact with his own hands, he killed none, but he is still responsible , along with his early supporters of genocide. BTW, who were (one of) his first and most ardent supporters??? the German Zionists!!!!!!

The man speaks the truth.

Would they go fight to free Palestinians from oppression? Your rant about something done in 1941 is highly suspect. To top it off, MSNBC isn't exactly a news source then a "rant" channel. It's very easy to retitle your rant as "Let us also remember that the Germans of the 30's were very much the same as today's Israeli's".

.. please see this: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/video/flv/generic.html?s=frol02n3d05qe4b and other videos online.

I have been made to believe that only 6 million Jews were killed during war.But I'm just getting to know that over 30 million Russians wre also killed.Incredulous!thanks Oliver Stone

Like a dentist hitting an exposed nerve. Nothing to hide? Then drag it out into the sun. And shall we look at the destruction of Russia in WW1 AND

Stone himself says that Hitler killed 25-30 milliion Russians. He then says that Hitler is a scapegoat and needs to be understood. Is this a guy you sounds like he's given much lucid thought to this.

Look at the amount of Jews to Russians Pre WWII you have 168 million people in Russia and you have 13.3 million Jews in the whole world... Now there were 6 million Jews killed and around 23.9 million Russians killed; of which half were in the military... so that means the total percentage of Russians dead was 14.4 percent and even less when you remove military deaths... but take 6 and divide it by 13.3 and you have 45 percent of the worlds Jewry dead... the difference is the Russians had a army made to defend them... and the Jews had an army designed by the Nazi's SOLELY to kill them...

How come one cannot say such things, which are true and proven (eg number of dead) without being immediately attacked by the lobby ?

This man should move to cuba or iran, he is so smart ,he is stupid. Just because gentiles do not care to force people to remember the Holocaust, stone wants to minimize it and what happened to Jews. Most gentiles or russians do not even know how many died in WW2, which means they don't care like Jews care. Jews were targeted to be wiped out, the russians were not. Plus most russians, polocks and other gentiles turned on their Jewish populations .

If you justifiy Hitler attitude in relation to Jews, searching historical reasons for that, there is no word to qualify you, but antisemite. Hitler was not a normal dictator like Castro, Kim il Sung or Ahmedinejad. No historical reason can justify what he did. There is a big difference in killing Jews, gays, gypsis, on one side, and civilians of an enemy state on the other side. None is justified but on the second case you can search for the historical reasons for that. Not the first one. Killing German Jews, for instance, is a pure and complete manifestation of antisemitism and try to justify that makes you a antisemite. It´s scary that a personality like Stone opens this debate and receives such a number of enthusiasts. The Holocaust has nothing to do with Israel. Most of those who died were not Zionists. They never endorsed the Yishuv. They prefered to be citizens of their countries. If Stone cretated this debate because of the hate for Israel, in the end, he is contributing to stenghten the idea of Israel as a safe haven for Jews since Jews in the diaspora continue to be demonized. The numers of the Holocaust were not given by Jews,nor Americans, but by the statistics of cities before and after the war. It´s simple mathematics whose numbers were provided by burocrats in Poland, Germany, Greece. No other event in History has been more studied than the Holocaust. The sources are open to everyone to discuss it. If Stone claim the US cannot discuss it, why the former USRR or the European countries - according to Stone, not subjected by Jewish lobbies - all confirm the numbers currently accepted of 6 million? Oliver Stone is more antisemite, a person desperately needing for fame and a debate to promote himself. In the end, he is kinda of a criminarl for lending his reputation to this disgusting debate.

Don't call him an anti-semite when he has Jewish ancestry himself, unless you want to perpetuate the self-loathing Jew stereotype. He isn't glorifying Hitler or Stalin here, all he is doing is asking questions about WWII history that everyone takes for granted. By smearing him, you prove his point! No open discussion on the Holocaust is allowed!

its not like haaretz NEEDS to report on every move every jew hater makes....let stone do what he wants...hes washed up anyhow...it doesnt mean haaretz has to give him a public platform.....and IF they choose to run such a ridiculous story, why not turn off the talkback on this one? it only promotes division and hate....its completely unecessary. for a news group that is on the left, it sure is strange how they attempt to promote peace. If you ask me, it just shows how bitter and lonely the left in israel is. This is a cry for attention...nothing more and waaaay below the standards haaretz once had....kinda reminds me of the new york times....another has been leftist newsgroup.

A lot of complaining and dissing Stone by those who know nothing of real history. In my experience an "antisemite" is not someone who hates Jews, it is someone who the Jews hate. Oh you darling victimoids.

A perfect fit for Anti Semites of the year. Stones next movie will no doubt star Mel Gibson...

Stone is both anti American and anti Jewish. A fan of Chjavez also.

It's not so much that jews don't admit to controlling the media. They just don't like it when someone has something NEGATIVE to say about it. If Oliver Stone was praising the Jews of Hollywood then everything would be fine.

What did the Jews ever do to you for you to have such vile thoughts. The hatred in you must goback many years probably since childhood when you were taught the famous 4 gospels.

Good for him. Now le's see the Jewish media try to destroy him because these are fighting words to these Zionist meatheads. They, the Zionist media, have so many lies and falsehoods about the holocaust to defend it will make their heads spin trying to stop all the truths that come out do to open debate. Good for Oliver Stone.

Now that he has ticked off the Zionist owners of ALL US media, look for a deluge of Oliver Stone rants of hatred against blacks, Jews, little fuzzy kittens . . . anything. You do NOT go messing with those crazed Zionists with their racist real-estate agent YHWH!!

Stone's remarks above show a very confused mind. His thoughts are incomplete and ignorant. Hitler did not kill 20 million Russians, Stalin did. He marched them across mine fields, into machine guns and heavy artillery fire just so he could be first in Berlin. Had he just been patient he could have save millions of his people and still have accomplished the same thing. As for domination of the press, The US press has many masters and most on them are non-Jewish. See how much press the Jews get over Obama and his Muslim friends. Give me a break Stone. You're a jerk looking for press on your new movie - admit it.

were killed primarily in combat or, starved in prisoner of war camps or revenge for partisan, guerrilla attacks, like my Polish relatives who fought with the Polish partisans and then went to Israel and the US. Had Hitler won Russians as Slavs would have been slave labor. Lets face it the Russian military strategy in both ww1 and ww2, until they fell back to the URALS was to throw masses of soldiers in virtual suicide attacks against a highly mechanized Nazi force. The Jews were to have another fate: the complete extermination of every Jew on the face of the earth. No other group was so marked for destruction as part of a states policy but the Jews. that's what makes the Holocaust the Holocaust and the most memorable part of WW2. in fact at the end of the war Hitler diverted vital resources to keep the death camps going, it became the only policy still enforced by the Nazi regime, even though the war was lost. to sum it up: Had Hitler won , there would have been Russians in the world as slaves, but not one Jew alive on the entire planet

Wait until his documentary comes out. Watch it and make a decision based on the facts or lack there of. Putting the cart before the horse and chastising the man based on personal fear and uncertainty is foolish.

the only factory that was nerver bombed by the allies the ford motor factory .

Wow. Sounds like this Oliver's tale will indeed have an interesting twist. And Mr. Stone's directorial prowess leaves much to be anticipated. Am interested to see who will be the vagabond-by-circumstance and the victim in this production. Of course, there was no High Priest in Oliver Twist, so the little boy escaped a social holocaust. But we must always keep in mind: sympathy for the scapegoat has never stopped the High Priest from putting it on the alter.

reading an israeli newspaper then making anti semetic comments? Wouldn;'t you feel more at home on youtube or something?

I am certainly NOT denying the Holocaust. What I am saying is that it is time of 'context' to be provided. Isn't that always one of Israel's complaints about criticism: that 'context' is NOT provided? Shoe's on the other foot baby!

Oliver Stone and the Israel lobby do each other as much harm as possible. Pass the popcorn.

well nazis acted because of the indifference of all countries.who were happy that someone did what they did not dare to do. but , no one knows better than jews what happened and no one can compare the jewish percecution and suffering to any of the palestinians difficult situation. they have all arabs to take care of them (If they really care) Jews were alone as always . the 6.000.000 souls who perished in the holocaust did not have weapons , not even stones.they did not have un or activists to fight for them. they died and with them gone went our childhood and all is left is the will to fight for our existence , no matter what our ennenies say. they have invented a new way of fighting us , and is called antizionism, antiisrael. but we say to them:AM ISRAEL HAI!

First Mel Gibson, now Oliver Stone.... I think they just have nothing better to do. No new excitement and they are just used to lots of attention.... Wackos

I saw Stone on HBO w/ Bill Maher. They are both are half-Jews, both liberals, but what is the difference in seeing the Jewish life. Maher is the defender of Jewish couse, and Stone is accusing Jews in all World problems. It is idiotic to compare WWII loses: Jews lost 30% of their population and Russians only 10% (including 2 millions Jews). Even Germans lost 15%. I do not beleive Stone is anti-Semite. I think he is not very itnellengent and just trying hard to show his liberal veiw, so nobody accuse him of being Jew sympatazer.

Jewish money has been behind many if not most of Hollywoods biggest productions. They gave us Charlton Heston as Moses, George C Scott as Abraham, and Paul Newman as a zionist aboard the Exodus. These were Hollywoods biggest stars at the time, and this is just scratching the surface. This is what money can buy. Israel is not used to Hollywood types going against the pro-Israel flow. It is interesting for its rarity. We had Mel Gibson and now Oliver Stone. Neither one is a true Hollywood insider, but both are huge in that small town. Still, I doubt that they are as disappointing to Israel as is Woody Allen. He made a a bunch of the most wonderful, most memorable movies ever to grace the small screen. His movies were awash with his Jewish heritage, history, and culture (as found in NYC), and yet he never gave a nod to Israel or to Israeli politics, or to Israeli propaganda. Woody Allen had his reasons for the things he did and did not do, same as Gibson and Stone. All should be taken in their complete context and not just as a target in a Jewish smear campaign.

what formed Hitler's and Stalin's views. They killed millions of people while they were in power, primarily to secure and keep their positions of authority. Compare them to Churchill and Roosevelt. I now understand how the circumstances of WW I affected WW II but the Germans were the aggressors in both cases. What Stalin did to the Russians--I don't think they've yet recovered.

The man is an idiot. I refuse to dignify his inane ravings beyond asking is he a twin of mel gibson?

Everyone who has SERIOUSLY taken the time to STUDY this sad chapter in germany's history, knows full well that many non german players took part in this sickness. IBM, Prescott Bush, the fords, the swiss...and on and on...but the germans, with their meticulous records really have left nothing to be researched. It's all been researched over and over....the fact is,millions were killed, by gassing,shooting, starving, torture etc...whatever ibm's role and others is not irrelevant, but another discussion. The FACTS remain that 6 million jews were systematically killed in a state wide enterprise that included all areas of government, from the medical department, to the judiciary, labour, transport, and on and on....all documented by the germans themselves! yes russians were killed, yes gypsies were killed, yes homosexuals(which iran does not have..lol) were killed...and not one jew has ever diminished all of the other people that were killed...but the fact remains, 6 million jews were killed and they were wholy different in how they were treated than all other groups....reserach the wannsee conference...research IG Farben.....go on....stop listening to idiots like stone and ahmedinejad for their efforts to delegitimize jews....it is a disgrace and ANYONE who subscribes to their theories are just plane naked jew haters....nothing more.

Stone’s Platoon-type scenario on HRW and AI in their context Why is Mr. Oliver Stone not making Platoon-like movies about the practices of Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and other neo-Übermensch organizations. Instead of representing like primitive animals those thoroughly selected and intensively trained citizens who as soldiers risk their lives and master their private interests and opinions to achieve democratic goals within usually an uncomfortable context, WHY does he not come out with as spectacularly degrading scenarios about these without any professional or transparent selection and even shielded from any democratic supervision. Are they possibly Übermensch with moral and intellectual superiority to any other inferior human being, especially soldiers and anyone else with a diverging opinion.

It is very convenient for Europe to put all the blame on the Holocaust on Nazi racism. First the "racism" purifies the European churches which (in contrast with the churches in the U.S.A.) promoted the idea that Jews - and not the Romans - killed Jesus. Second, the Nazi regime is also very convenient in letting all forget that virtually all Europe knew and took part. It also permitted to ride on the "German economy horse" up to this day: "you Germans better work for us if you want to be reenter in the community of nations". It is also convenient for the Israeli left-wing who tells us that "there was never real antisemitism, there was only racism, and today people are only against the occupation, not against Jews". The point is that the Holocaust was not only the wish of the Nazis, and not only the wish of Germany, but the wish of all Christian Europe.

"Russians suffered more from the Nazi's" A nation of 120 + million individuals lost nearly 30 million. The Jews of Europe numbered barely 15 million, of which 6 million were killed. Percentages are what matter, not numbers. Another point is that Russians died at the hands of Stalin during the war with his strategy of "keep the men coming" At one point the German high command would describe Russian attacks on the Eastern Front as a "masses of bodies, some barely armed, some barely clothed, running at our lines to be killed like dogs - only to be killed by their commanders for turning back."

What else could be expected from an "intelectual deviate" like this guy? Unfortunately, this time Stone outdid himself. Poor Hitler, just a victim of American thirst for money being his thesis. How low can a movie-maker fall?

So is this Oliver Stone's version of the Passion? Mel Gibson made a billion dollars baiting the Jews all over the World. So maybe Stone thinks baiting the United States will do the same thing?

The entire Soviet Union fought a war against Nazi Germany. If we talk about the war, yes, there are many millions of ethnic Russians, Ukrainians, Belorussians and others killed (including 200,000 Russian Jewish soldiers). If we talk about the genoicide, well, then yes, Jews and Gypsies were the victims. It is also true that Russians, Ukrainians and Belorussians were on a path to be victims of Nazi genocide when Nazi Germany would have been done with its Jewish and Gypsy victims. But of course, this famed filmmaker has been high up on drugs for the last 2 decades and therefore his inflammatory comments and friendship with other paranoid schizophrenics like Chavez.

The freedom of those crying hyena about free debate and freedom of opinion is the “freedom” to share their rigid opinions, remarkably all anti-Semitic. More or less like the “humanism” in the DDR. As soon as, in defence of advanced democratic economies, you come up with a striking argument that dustifies – I repeat “dustifies” - such rigid, systemically skewed opinions, you have for the rest of your life to face outright fascistoid practices and human booby traps wherever you go, in any shop, on any tramway, in every street, in every residence, at every conference. And technical censure. No to mention the Nazi-type concept of a Jewish media conspiracy. Oh, his name is Stone, Oliver Stone.

Some think he's a lunatic. Some think he's a far left liberal. Same thing, their both right!

Same ilk !

There were at least three well-planned attempts. None of them worked.

Nobody convinces me that Mr. Hitler shows up one day and convinces 80 million Germans plus some additional several million Europeans to wipe out 6 million Jews just like that. Especially since these murdered were not only Jews but Jewish co- citizens and neighbors. There is nothing wrong, in my opinion, to analyze and demonstrate the events which led to this horror. It will not diminish the suffering caused nor diminish the responsibility of the present German generations (not that they ever ran away from it) but it will show how such evil can occur by means of propaganda, economic hardship, controlled media and internal violence. Let’s not forget that the good old USA was sold on a war in Iraq on false pretenses, despite a free news media and internet. So, let’s not forget but let’s understand and do something about it. Enough stuff has happened since and is happening today.

Oliver Stone can't do it. He couldn't do JFK and he couldn't do Vietnam. Hirschbiegel did Der Untergang and he produced a Masterpiece. It took Germans, speaking German to pull it off. Stone isn't Coppola, he's not even very good. This is all PR to get bums on seats. He may make a fortune from the eager punters but he'll never be a Contender like Bergman, Polanski, Bunuel, Spielberg, Huston, Eisenstein or Tarkovsky

in their anti-semitic views. A poll conducted of US soldiers in 1941 (recently mention on MSNBC in relations to gays in the military) had that 84 percent of soldiers believed (american) that there was nothing good about the jews. You would think these were german soldiers, but when you look at the segregated and no jews allowed environment that they came from it should be no surprise. But let us not full ourselves, ww2 had nothing to do with jews, but the British, American and ultimately, Russian interests being threatened by Hitler, had the war been to save the Jews, I dare say that not one American would enlist, such were the times in the US.

The fact that World War 2 was a tragedy, that had a terrible impact, on people all over the world, but especially Jews, Russians, Chinese, Japanese and Germans ... is fairly well known. But there are 'facts' that are totally in dispute. For example, taking the Jewish population in Europe in 1935, then subtracting the Jewish population in Europe, in 1945 ... and saying that therefore Hitler killed 6 million Jews, is a huge leap. There is no question that many Jews died in the camps, but what about Russians? Did more Jews or Russians get exterminated? These are things that have never been researched. The Russians suffered greatly in the camps and on the battlefield. But the way it has been portrayed, the uneducated would believe that Stalin and Hitler allied to kill Jews ... Because objective research of the holocaust has been impossible in America.

The Russian did suffer the most from the Nazis (upwards of 30 million people dead) and we do have a distorted view of Stalin and Hitler. I mean the fact that in Germany and some other states you cannot even openly debate this without going to jail says a lot about the powers that be and their fascistic trust in capital over people. I am not saying that the Nazis or Communist were not bad people, they were, but people should be allowed to debate this, hence, the distorted view of history. In terms of foreign policy, I believe that Israel is actually being controlled by the US industrialist of today - should Israel no longer prove useful to us, I have no doubt that we would flip like a coin on them.

I’m not a historian to give my verdict about the holocaust but I believe that the Zionists are preventing any kind of free debate about this subject which most likely will lead to delegitimizing the racist state of Israel which was established by Jewish immigrants at the expense of the native Palestinians. The Sympathy with the Jewish people made the world keep silent when they committed their crimes against the Palestinians. Otherwise how the world will support them if there is no such stories? Americans must have free media. God bless Palestine

Reminds me of the classic Sarah Silverman joke; her young niece tells her she learned in school that Hitler murdered 60 million Jews. Sarah replies, "60 million? No honey, it was only 6 million... 60 million would have been unforgivable!" Apparently, Stone does not understand irony. He can only provide it.

Reading the droolings of the anti-gentiles on this site is high entertainment. And watching Oliver Stone rip the mask of "victimhood" off your ugly faces is even better. Mr. Stone: MAY I HAVE YOUR BABY?

They dart, he squints, looking like a mad Captain Queeg. I think his mind is slipping into dementia.

The point Stone makes is VALID. Where did the $ come from to build the NAZI WAR MACHINE? The people who FUNDED HITLER are just as guilty, and is as important to understand as Hitler himself. In 1942 Union Banking Corp. was among 4 companies confiscated by the US gov under the trading with the enemy act because it was a Nazi front bank. Among its owners were Prescott Bush & E. Roland Harriman. Prominent US, European, and British bankers, including some prominent Jews (Harriman) financially backed the Nazis: http://tarpley.net/online-books/george-bush-the-unauthorized-biography/chapter-2-the-hitler-project/ Here's is what Max Warburg had to say about it: Max Warburg replied on March 27, 1933, assuring his American sponsors that the Hitler government was good for Germany: “ For the last few years business was considerably better than we had anticipated, but a reaction is making itself felt for some months. We are actually suffering also under the very active propaganda against Germany, caused by some unpleasant circumstances. These occurrences were the natural consequence of the very excited election campaign, but were extraordinarily exaggerated in the foreign press. The Government is firmly resolved to maintain public peace and order in Germany, and I feel perfectly convinced in this respect that there is no cause for any alarm whatsoever. ” On March 29, 1933, two days after Max’s letter to Harriman, Max’s son, Erich Warburg, sent a cable to his cousin Frederick M. Warburg, a director of the Harriman railroad system. He asked Frederick to “ use all your influence ” to stop all anti-Nazi activity in America, including “ atrocity news and unfriendly propaganda in foreign press, mass meetings, etc. ” Frederick cabled back to Erich: “ No responsible groups here [are] urging [a] boycott [of] German goods[,] merely excited individuals. ” Two days after that, On March 31, 1933, the American-Jewish Committee, controlled by the Warburgs, and the B’nai B’rith, heavily influenced by the Sulzbergers (New York Times), issued a formal, official joint statement of the two organizations, counseling “ that no American boycott against Germany be encouraged, ” and advising “ that no further mass meetings be held or similar forms of agitation be employed. ”

Must want to make a movie in Iran...what an incontrovertible idiot

everyone knows that stone is safe: no one is threatening to kill him, and he hasn't gone into hiding. if these statements were made analogously against muslims, he would have dozens of death threats by now and would have the need for armed guards. knowing this, why does everyone say the jews are bad and the muslims are good? he is purposefully picking on a group of people who WON'T resort to violence and saying how awful they are. and the ones who WOULD resort to violence are given a free pass. systemic failure.

has completely lost his mind!

This is Haaretz's audience.

Stone uncovers many facts regarding Americans who agreed with Hitler and profited as well. We all know that anti-semitism had been and continues to be alive and well within the US Government. the State Department, the Coucil of Foreign Relations, the FBI, CIA, Pentagon are all suspicious of Jewish Americans with dual loyalty. Roosevelt wasn't keen on bombing the railroad tracks leading to the concentration camps; or allowing a ship of fleeing European Jews to emigrate to America. The same boat that wasn't allowed to British occupied palestine. Truman felt he was forced to recognize a Jewish State; he didn't like Jews himself, as historians recorded. There was a American Nazi Party, later converted to the American Socialist party. Hilter wasn't the only anti-semite during this time, but was the only one to put the plan into action. Oliver Stone has a small minority of followers who think that Hugo Chavez and the Iranian illegitimate President are superior to our current government. These leftists finally expose themselves for the world to see. The Federal Reserve Bank who sets US monetary policy and is a private corporation partly owned by The Bank of England, The Bank of Germany, and a few of these anti-semitic families. Google it if you think I'm wrong.

wake up wake up wakep! stone you are the man!

Some commentaries are miserable and revolting. Oliver Stone made many in this interview that puzzled me. To compare war II casualties and said: Hitler did far more damage to the Russians than the Jewish people, it blew my brains out. At the end of the WWII, 67% (5,933,900) of the total 8,861,800 European Jews had gone up in smoke, literally for most of them. They were not Military Deaths or Civilian Deaths; they were exterminated like bugs without a “chance” to be involved in the war campaign to save their lives. Should we remind that Poland was left with -16.1% / 16.7% of its citizens (which most of them also were victims of an ethnic cleansing policy) or Lithuania -14.7% or the Gypsies which percentage of WWII losses is equivalent of the European Jews (Source Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties#endnote_USSR and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust .). Those percentages do not want to minimize the WWII death toll/casualties of the Soviet Union (at that time) which was 14% of its entire population. The damage of that Frankenstein Policy is still present in many European Towns, in the “leftover” of families who suffered from this Ethnic Cleansing Policy and World History. Oliver Stone plays with numbers and with this kind of game 350 000 Lithuanian Deaths and the 5,933,900 Jews do not mean anything compare to 25/30 millions Russians… Are we taking about “in context”??? Oliver Stone should apology to the Jews who dominate of the media that, maybe without them, he will not be the director he is today.

calls for the extermination of the descendants of Amalek and the destruction of the Canaanite nations. So the Nazis wanted to eradicate the Jews. It wasn't the Jews that stopped Hitler, it was the combined forces of the Allied powers. Hitler's views weren't specific to Germany, they were based on prevailing European values of the time and they still exist today. Hitler's plans weren't designed just against the Jews. Many other groups would have gone the same path.

I can agree that the he is an easy scapegoat for many accomplices for the 2WW atrocities, including Americans, Soviets, British, French. But the point of view it is something else, what was his point of mass killing of 5 thousands jewish inhabitans of the city of Slutsk? Did it help german war affort?! To understant this monster's fenomena ,one must look into pathology of the brain, postraumatic stess disorder, drug addiction, , and autistic syndrome. The combination of all of this factors made him who he was. People like him belong in a side show, not at the helm of major European power.

Welcome home--you'll meet plenty of your anti-Semitic brethren here. And by the way, it was the Nazis themselves who provided the most meticulous accounting of their victims. They left plenty of records, not least in Auschwitz where all those gassed were meticulously recorded in journals. But of course you're not interested in history; you're just interested in anti-Semitic ravings and propaganda. Carry on.

Just like Wealthy Liberals were warming up to the Nazis, it seems like Wealthy Liberals are warming up to the Arabs Anything to ensure their survival and ensure their wealth in case things get bad

Stone's films often have been criticized for promoting conspiracy theories and historical inaccuracies. JFK, for instance, centers on a heroic character who comes to believe that many high-level government officials had a hand in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In 1991, he showed the film to Congress on Capitol Hill, which helped lead to passage of the Assassination Materials Disclosure Act[14] of 1992. The Assassination Records Review Board (created by Congress to end the secrecy surrounding Kennedy's assassination) discussed the film, including Stone's observation at the end of the film, about the dangers inherent in government secrecy.[15] Stone published an annotated version of the screenplay, in which he cites references for his claims, shortly after the film's release. Stone's screenplay Midnight Express was criticized for portraying the Turkish people in an overly negative light. The original author, Billy Hayes, around whom the film is set, has spoken out against the film, protesting that he had many Turkish friends while in jail.[16] Stone's film The Doors received criticism from Ray Manzarek (keyboardist–bass player) during a question and answer session at Indiana University East (in Richmond, Indiana), in 1997. During the discussion, Manzarek stated that he sat down with Stone about The Doors and Jim Morrison for over 12 hours. Patricia Kennealy Morrison - a well known rock critic and author - was a consultant on the movie, in which she also has a cameo appearance, but she writes in her memoir Strange Days: My Life With and Without Jim Morrison (Dutton, 1992) that Stone ignored everything she told him and proceeded with his own version of events. From the moment the movie was released, she blasted it as untruthful and inaccurate.[17] Surviving members of the band, John Densmore and Robby Krieger, also cooperated with the filming of Doors, but distanced themselves from the work before the film's release. Natural Born Killers is filmed and edited in a frenzied style where animation, grainy black-and-white 8 mm film, color 35 mm film, and VHS are intercut and juxtaposed in a psychedelic montage of images showing not only the story's action, but also conveying the thoughts and feelings of the characters. The film was criticized by some for its apparent glorification of violence. Quentin Tarantino was credited with "Story By" on the final film. In 1997, a book about the making of the film, Killer Instinct, was written by Jane Hamsher and published by Broadway Books. Also in 1997, Stone was one of 34 celebrities to sign an open letter to then-German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, published as a newspaper advertisement in the International Herald Tribune, which protested against the treatment of Scientologists in Germany and compared it to the Nazis' oppression of Jews in the 1930s.[18] Other signatories included Dustin Hoffman and Goldie Hawn.[18]

Stone was born in New York City, the son of Jacqueline (née Goddet) and Louis Stone, a stockbroker.[2] He grew up affluently and lived in townhouses in Manhattan and Stamford, Connecticut. His father was Jewish and his mother a Roman Catholic of French birth, and Stone was raised an Episcopalian as a compromise[3] but has since converted to Buddhism. Stone attended Trinity School before his parents sent him away to attend The Hill School, an exclusive college-preparatory school in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. His mother was often absent and his father made a big impact on his life; father-son relationships were to feature heavily in Stone's films.

The "Holocaust industry" in the USA certainly exists and has consistently used Holocaust as a political lever with every US administration since WW2. It is responsible for devaluing the lessons of the Holocaust as a result and also for carrying out self-perpetuating activities in which 'the good of the survivors' is used to access funds which haven't always reached survivors. In Israel we haven't exactly covered ourselves in glory with the way we dealt with survivors and finances. BUT when a great film-maker embarks on the kind of project Stone is engaged with and describes it the way he has, then you cannot say the Holocaust industry deserves all the blame. That he trots out the now well publicised Meersheimer Walt contention that the Jews run US Mid-East foreign policy and adds the spicy suggestion that they run the US press too, is extremely worrying, if not because it's not substantiated. This is well beyond Stone's need to publicise an upcoming film by courting enough controversy to raise audience figures. Challenge the Holocaust industry - OK. Make ridiculous claims about a US wide Jewish press and power conspiracy - not OK. The question remains however, what is to be done about this? The answer isn't simple and Stone knows it.

Wow and to think I actually admired this guys work, I am going to send all my Stone DVD's back to the Store that buys Used DVD's, I don't care if they give me a nickel for all of them

"Control the media" is a loaded term and begs to be defined. If Oliver Stone means that Jews somehow control what gets published I think he may be showing a clear bias of opinion as there are many publications (i.e. NY Times) that I would consider as left leaning and not too sympathetic to Israel. Trying to understand the details of how Hitler came to power and who supported him and for what purpose is perfectly fine in my opinion. Questioning the repetitition of the Holocaust and why it is important and unique for Jews suggests some level of bias and closed-mindedness in my opinion. The fact that many more people died during WW2 including the Russian, Slavs, Chinese is significant but its a differnt animal than the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a deliberate attempt to annihilate certain ethnic groups and it almost succeded. In fact, it succeeded in wiping out a large percentage of the Jews on earth in systematic and premedidated manner. This is very significant and in that light we would all benefit from understanding the mindsets, influences and interests at the time that allowed such a tragedy to take place.

I have a problem with world control theories. If the Jews are smart enough to control the media, why aren't they doing a better job at it? Same goes with whoever is running the world (hard to keep track of this - what with Freemasons, Jews, Knights Templar, the Bilderburg Group, and the Kiwanis Club, etc.) But whoever it is (and you and Olver apparently know who you are), you suck at it.

sir you said you do not believe the number of jews killed is correct,let me explain to you, how that was done how did they arrive at the numbers?.very simple,lets say poland had 3 milion jews before WW2 when it was over there were only a milion left, that means 2 milion had imigrated to the north pole, are you with me so far? holland had 120000. when it was over about 10000 were left it seems also 110000 went to the south pole, the same in russia germany begium france and all the other countries taken over by the germans or like croatia who were with the germans. so MR Gorkan i dont know how good you are at figures but an averige student at school can work out how the numbers killed were arrived at. have a nice day joseph theeboom

Lifelong marijuana users become frequently prone to schizoid , self contradictory statements no matter how intelligent they are..Mr stone, a self confessed pot user is obviously no exception to it. It seems to be a medical problem.

US and the western world's foreign policy has always been based on keeping Arab oil flowing to feed our industries. Jews have no control over this. If they did, the US would have boycotted OPEC years ago. Stone has to set up a phony straw-man in order to have anyting to say

What the F.. is wrong with the stones this year? From Richard Goldstone to Oliver Stone...

If Haaretz prints this, that is.

We make sure he doesn't work ever again!

same old same old...liberal left wing hollywood types, who think they matter because they're job is making movies...unfortunately, stones movies have for a long time sucked...this whole perversion of history and its real documented events are sadly being revisited by shmucks like this that want the average uneducated person to maybe re think otherwise documented history. And why? because some jerk from hollywood is a racist but makes movies and therefore its somewhow legitimate? its disgraceful.

jews have strong and clear historical evidences unlike Armenians. that s why armenians try to use parliaments to make it a dogma to prevent free discussions. Jews do not need it.

I could not believe when I read this! Oliver should marry Mel and move to Pakistan or Afghanistan together ...Anti-Semitic- Idiots!

I have a word of advice for Oliver Stone: Stay out of the sun.

It will be interesting to see how many omissions Stone will do to prove his point of view, as he did in his last documentary. And how many good will people will swallow it.

Besides boycotting Mad Max Movies I also plan to stop viewing Stone's films.

like a lot of people who can't handle the fame and attention - stone has gone wacko! he thinks he's bigger /smarter than anyone else!!!

It would be better for him to say that Pro-Israel activists dominate the media. That would be more accurate. Because Pat Robertson and his CBN are cleary not jews, nor is Rupert Murdoch. However, in this Orwelian world that we live in, that too is anti-semitism!!! Those who dare criticize are immediately tried and executed for anti-semitism in the media; Helen Thomas and Octavia Nasir are the latest examples of that.

What an a.hole!Do not patronize his movies.He doesn't deserve it.Can't believe he said these absurd and idiotic things.If he truly believes them-he is an idiot,first class!

Get ready for the "nice Jews" to come out in hordes to support him

have you ever asked yourselves americans what israelis think about you - it is the greatest secret since by such a perception they cotrol u -letting you enjoy the week ends yet they are engaged relenlessly in drawing the USA strategy fools

mr stone ,you may be good in film making but i rate your comment zero and out of point.

He is an idiot - How can you say such a thing to the press - you don't have any common sense - Stone - what you were thinking - many greats much greater and bigger than you had kept mum all these years - why? They do not want to do sucide . You have the guts and courage but what use it is of if it finishes your professional life. Be smart - be wary - do not poke at bees nest or hive - they will be around you stinging like hell in a minute - you'll have no place to hide in the open except going underground - There is one way and that is to burn it down - but who is going to do it. Mr Stone think on those lines

As long as the information is factual i think it will be an eye opening movie to the vast majority of people who are uninformed and who simply absorb the information that they are thought. As long as the "Holocaust debate" is not used as a means to delegitimize israel and without basis to deny the tragedy, all historical facts should be known and studied. I think it would be very interesting to learn a more in depth historical account on the founding and funding of the Nazi party and so on...

There are people who job it is to screen the American media for any hint of deviation from a pro-Israel slant. If they detect such a thing they call press conferences, command lawyers, and martial verious Jewish money to put the offender back in line. American media does not want this headache. This is why very little news is reported in America relating to the Arab/Israeli conflict. This is why the Arabs are always portrayed as the bad guys and the Jews are always the good guys when it is reported at all. The American media is allowed to report that Islamic extremism is rising, but they are not allowed to make any connection to Israel, even when it comes directly from the extremist groups. Years ago Osama Bin laden made a tape played in Arab nations and in the EU describing how American support of Israel was a major motivation for the 9/11 attacks. This was not allowed to be reported in America. I can go on and on, but I will just wait for Oliver Stones movie.

He says that more Russians were killed than Jews. But what Oliver is missing is that an entire nation made it its objective to round up and murder people of a specific kind, including those that were counted among their own citizens, use them as slave labor, use everything from their hair to their teeth as industries, and treat them as less than human. War indeed is tragic and the loss of all life during WWII and others is quite sad. But the story behind the holocaust tells us of the depths enlightened human beings can go do, and asks probing questions about the world's treatment and perception fo the Jews.

People have refuted the "official gospel" many times, and they were refuted by sound historical investigation from independent historians all over a period of decades. It was one of the most well-documented genocides in world history, mostly because the Nazis themselves kept such effective records. So I apologize if I refuse to be shaken to my core by some hysterical ninny of a filmmaker with a passing interest in the controversial. Sure, we would all do well not to let Hitler become our only model of "evil" but sometimes the devil really doesn't need an advocate, he does well enough on his own.

I'm surprised this isn't all over the media a la Mel Gibson. And doesn't Oliver Stone realize that being "half Jewish" (father's side) that the Nazis would've sent him to the camps too?

Oliver Stone seems to be quite right to me. Although, Hitler certainly had been a psychopathic personality he would not have had any success if he would not have been supported by the war industry in Germany as well as by concerns of other countries. The father of J.F.K. for instance invested in Hitler's policy too. Within Germany it was the humilialion by World War I and the following poverty because of the Treaty of Versaille. Well, we should learn from history the truism: there are no "just" wars, nor were there any in the past. We have only one earth to share. And we should not try dominating and exploiting other parts of the world. Human species cannot survive wtihout respect for each other and the resources given to us all.

He should be have his balls removed for speaking the truth like this. What's wrong with him. Everyone knows this but is it necessary to go around telling the rest of the sleeping idiots that are too busy working for us like slaves!!!! Don't worry, u will get your check also.

Pull the Jew card. Lets call Hitler, Stalin, Arafat, Chavez, Adjminidad a little misunderstood-Oliver Stone is losing it.

any one denying what Mr. stone said word by word , is a lier and hypocrate. I hope to see every American is as smart as him, specially those crocked politicians who work for Israel and not for us. post my comment , I challenge you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

"American don't know about many things, like reading writing, thinking, most believe in the superstitions and myths of the day, Oliver Stone is a perfect example of the use of logical fallacies acrosss his work but that his has the secret is just too much.

"American don't know about many things, like reading writing, thinking, most believe in the superstitions and myths of the day, Oliver Stone is a perfect example of the use of logical fallacies acrosss his work but that his has the secret is just too much.

Who made this movie? Oliver Stone, who is half Jewish. Do Jews control the media? I don't know.

The last I saw of Stone he was in a loving embrace with Chavez of Venezuela.

Mr. Stone is a very very confused man with some underlying psychological issues that are becoming pronounced with age. His upbringing as a child no doubt has had quite an impact: His father was Jewish and his mother a Roman Catholic of French birth, and Stone was raised an Episcopalian as a compromise[3] but has since converted to Buddhism. Stone attended Trinity School before his parents sent him away to attend The Hill School, an exclusive college-preparatory school in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. His mother was often absent and his father made a big impact on his life; father-son relationships were to feature heavily in Stone's films.[4] His parents divorced when he was 15, due to his father's extramarital affairs with the wives of several family friends

You can deny and discuss GOD, you wont go to jail, but if you discuss or deny Holocaust you go to jail, that Jewish complete controll

Name two media centers controlled by Jews. Hollywood, news stations, anything. Didn't think you could. Bigoted freaks.

oliver stone is stoned and must be stoned...

Finding yet another conspiracy in the Jews, and further finding refuge in no less than Hitler and Stalin, and blaming IBM and GM, indirectly, for the Holocaust? Is there any quicker way to announce to the world, "hey, I'm a nut-case"??

The reason that he is able to say it in plain english is the fact that he is not running for office and the AIPAC guys has no leverage. Stone is a Vietnam veteran and a great patriot. I trust him whole heartedly and agree with everything he is saying. It is high time that we take back our country, our State Department and out Pentagon.

Jews are more likely to blame German and European Jew-hatred as a whole.

History always finds a way of catching up with us; why? Because we never learn from our mistakes of the past. In order TO learn we must investigate and try to understand how and what turn of events really led to the Holocaust of so many millions of people.

I, myself, is a WWII enthusiast and whatever he believes in is simply NOT TRUE. Trivializing the Holocaust, blaming WWII on others, not having much understanding of what is a dictator..... In Stalin's USSR Mr. Stone would have been digging for coal in the out-reaches of Siberia and under Hitler Mr. Stone would by now already be rotting with a bullet in his head somewhere in Buchenwald.

What would be controversial if he said that jews don't control the media. It's a well established fact that jews control the US media. Hollywood and newsmedia is owned by jews. The only thing he'll get in trouble for is not saying that it is a good thing.

well know facts, but thank you for the artical

Surprise, surprise. Thats the real news today. Regarding Mr.Oliver Stone, well we all know he is a controversal figure, he adores the PR, also he has made some excellent movies. Lets just get on with the real news, Somalia and Shebab, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Global warming. The BP catastrophe. Mr.Obama and his poll readings. A good day to all.

Oliver Stone missed one name who dealt with Hitler and that is Prescott Bush, grand father of George W. Bush.

Stone has the right to think and say what he wants but there is no " Holocaust debate" except in the minds of those trying their best to delegitimize Israel and the Jewish people. Stone is a shameless self-promoter and politically crazy. He enjoys nothing more than pouring salt on people's wounds to get a reaction, somewhat sadistic if you ask me. The Holocaust by Oliver Stone will be another round of scab picking....ala Stone.

Why criticise Oliver Stone for doing a film about two historical figures? Does anyone flinch about Attila or Gengis Khan? They also were a bit of savage mass murderers, pillaging, raping and massacring whole populations. But i wouldn't be accused of being anti-mongolian if i did a film about him. To depict the economical trappings and political deals that permited a man like Hitler to seize power is not a negative thing, all the oposite. It's more likely to be educational, as not to repeat the same mistakes again. Do not forget that was the harsh impositions of the WW 1 victors on germany, the economic depression of the late 30's, an unstable political establishment, and finally a putsch paid by the industrialists that put Hitler into power. Anti-semitism had existed for centuries in Europe, Hitler just added gasoline to the fire, choosing the jews, and his political rivals, the communists as the root of all evil. Basically, scapegoats, accused of all the problems the germans had. By directing the hate and frustration of a whole nation towards the jews, he could, literally, get away with murder.

all he is going to do is present the story in a way that is different than in the usual films that focus on the jewish murder. maybe it s true that companies such as GM and IBM helped the nazi regime and this would be quite interesting to see... to all those criticising him already: there is nothing disrespectful in the comments written in the article. and yes, jews have a strong control over the media and many more things in america. (probably this is why it s the most successful country in the world)

why does Haaretz not say what he really is? An anti semite, those who utter remarks like the Jews control this or that, that is simply antisemtism!! The Jews do not control the US media nor US politics. Those who claim otherwise are anti semites and should be treated that way.

Usually American will do something that satisfy Israeli, but now seems go to opposite way..

I would like someone to tell me what Mr. Stone said that was untrue. American industrialists did provide support to Hitler before and during the war, enabling him to commit the Holocaust. AIPAC is one of the strongest lobbies in the US and is extremely vigilant about publicizing anything critical of Israel. More Russians were killed in the war than any group other than the Slavs and the Chinese. He has not denied the Holocaust. He has not said anything anti-semitic. Please tell me the factual errors and why people are so upset.

free media is a must to guantee freedom of speach

The Holocaust is a fact. Remembering the Holocaust unites the Jewish people as a nation, in Israel and abroad. Therefore, great emphasis is given to the Jewish Holocaust by Jewish people, which also leads to some ethnocentrism and nationalism. Some people might be offended by this because ethnocentrism causes us to be concerned about ourselves, but often not empathetic to others. Aside from the bane of nationalism and ethnocentrism, the Holocaust is a fact which cannot be questioned. Which media is he reading, because I read media from all over the world, which is not Jewish controlled and in the USA, which is not Jewish controlled, and the Holocaust is studied and discussed by all. For instance, there is Holocaust discussion on an Armenian website; no one is preventing a free discussion which is very educational, because the editor is a major in genocide studies, which is a growing field of study, which more universities, high schools will include in their curriculum, as more people become educated as teachers.

When Stone says that Holocoust wasn't unique and Hitler killed much more Slaws and Roma and Sinti, but unfortunately they have no lobby in the US.

Hitler rebuild Germany after WW1 which was no small task but due to his racism and a lot of drugs instead of sending the Jews back to the ME which was his original plan, he created the Holocaust, killed 20M Russians and helped cause massive destruction of Europe. Stalin was not a racist but a Sadist, he hated anyone who would try to remove him from power or get in his way to more power.

To the article, all he say is that Hitler and the Naziparty did not come out of nothing, but was created by circumstances and finansial support. Why is that controversial? Maybe the controversial part is the notion that jews do not have the worldpatent on suffering, during WWII?