I propose that we place former President Jimmy Carter in the same jail
cell as Kevin Strom, since both are Nazi's:
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Jimmy Carter: Too many Jews on Holocaust council
Former president also rejected Christian historian because name sounded
'too Jewish'
Posted: January 25, 2007
11:07 p.m. Eastern

By Aaron Klein
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Monroe Freedman

TEL AVIV - Former President Jimmy Carter once complained there were
"too many Jews" on the government's Holocaust Memorial Council, Monroe
Freedman, the council's former executive director, told WND in an
exclusive interview.

Freedman, who served on the council during Carter's term as president,
also revealed a noted Holocaust scholar who was a Presbyterian
Christian was rejected from the council's board by Carter's office
because the scholar's name "sounded too Jewish."

Freedman, now a professor of law at Hofstra University, was picked by
the council's chairman, author Elie Weisel, to serve as executive
director in 1980. The council, created by the Carter White House, went
on to establish the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

Freedman says he was tasked with creating a board for the council and
with making recommendations to the White House on how best to
memorialize the Holocaust.

He told WND he sent a memo to Carter's office containing
recommendations for council board members.

He said his memo was returned with a note on the upper right hand
corner that stated, "Too many Jews."

The note, Freedman said, was written in Carter's handwriting and was
initialed by Carter.
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Freedman said at the time the board he constructed was about 80-perent
Jewish, including many Holocaust survivors.

He said at the behest of the White House he composed another board
consisting of more non-Jews. But he said he was "stunned" when Carter's
office objected to a non-Jew whose name sounded Jewish.

Freedman said he could not provide the historians name to WND because
he did not have the man's permission.

"I got a phone call from our liaison at the White House saying this
particular historian whose name sounded Jewish would not do. The
liaison said he would not even take the time to present Carter with the
possibility of including the historian on the board because he knew
Carter would think the name sounded too Jewish. I explained the
historian is Presbyterian, but the liaison said it wouldn't matter to
Carter."

Freedman said he was "outraged by this absurdity."

"If I was memorializing Martin Luther King, I would expect a
significant number of board members to be African American. If I was
memorializing Native American figures I'd expect a lot of Native
Americans to be on the board.

"I do not for a moment consider it inappropriate to build a Holocaust
council with a significant majority of the board being Jewish,"
Freedman stated.

Freedman describes himself as "self-proclaimed liberal." He said he
decided to speak out after the release of Carter's latest book,
"Palestine: Peace not Apartheid," which some have accused of being
biased against Israel.

This would not be the first time Carter's messages on right hand
corners of letters generated a Holocaust-related scandal.

Last week, in an interview with the Tovia Singer Show on Israel
National Radio, a former U.S. Justice Department official said he
received a letter advocating "special consideration" for a confessed
Nazi SS officer accused of murdering Jews in the Mauthausen death camp
in Austria.

Neal Sher, who served in the Justice Department's Office of Special
Investigation, said that in 1987 he received a note from Carter
petitioning for re-entry into the U.S. for Martin Bartesch, who had
been deported by Sher's office to Austria after it was established he
served as an SS officer.

Sher said his office had "extraordinary evidence" Bartesch shot Jews.

Bartesch originally immigrated to the U.S. and lived in Chicago. He
later admitted to Sher's office and the court he had voluntarily joined
the SS as a teenager and served in its Death's Head Division at the
Mauthausen concentration camp where many thousands of prisoners were
gassed, shot, starved and worked to death. Bartesch also confessed to
having concealed his SS service at concentration camp from U.S.
immigration officials.

Sher said the Justice Department obtained a journal kept by the SS and
captured by the U.S. Armed Forces listing Bartesch as having shot to
death Max Oschorn, a French Jewish prisoner.

Bartesch's daughters, who still lived in the U.S., attempted in 1987 to
appeal to politicians to allow the former Nazi officer to enter the
country. They wrote a note in which they claimed it was "un-American"
to persecute a man for crimes committed when he was only 17 and 18
years old.

Sher said he was shocked when he received the daughter's letter replete
with a handwritten note from Carter on the upper right corner stating
the former president wanted "special consideration" for the Bartesch
family for humanitarian reasons.

The note, containing Carter's signature, was obtained this week by the
NY Sun.