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Scientology's "Holocaust" // Is Hollywood on the wrong side in Germany's "Church" vs. state furor?

Title: Scientology's "Holocaust" // Is Hollywood on the wrong side in Germany's "Church" vs. state furor?
Date: Tuesday, 25 February 1997
Publisher: Salon
Author: David Hudson
Main source: salon.com

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BERLIN — “Historically inaccurate and totally distasteful." Strong words from Madeleine Albright, who had good reason to apply them. America's new secretary of State was referring to the widely publicized statement by Oliver Stone, Dustin Hoffman and other Hollywood celebrities equating Germany's current treatment of the Church of Scientology with the Holocaust. When she met with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl last week, Albright was committed to bringing up U.S. "concerns" about Germany's treatment of Scientologists. At the same time, she clearly ... [Read the rest at salon.com]