Germany insists it is responsible for the Holocaust

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has responded to controversial comments by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, by saying that Germany was responsible for the Holocaust, in which millions of Jews were killed by Germany during the Second World War.

Mr Netanyahu had claimed that Adolf Hitler only wanted to expel Jews from Europe, and that it was Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini who told him: "Burn them."

The prime minister's comments, said while speaking at the World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, have been widely condemned, including by Israeli historians and politicians.

Chancellor Merkel said Germans were "very clear in our minds" that the Nazis were responsible for the holocaust.

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