I'm not quite sure what to make of this one. It's good news. I think.
Romanian nationalist plans pilgrimage to Auschwitz
By Reuters
BUCHAREST - Romania's extreme nationalist party leader Corneliu Vadim Tudor said on Friday he will lead a pilgrimage to the Auschwitz death camp to express his remorse for long denying a Holocaust took place in his home country.
The leader of the Greater Romania party, long known for his anti-Semitic views, said he begged for forgiveness for denying hundreds of thousands of Jews were killed during World War Two in Romania and for his "terrible words" against Jewish leaders.
"I am asking God and the people I have hurt for forgiveness," the presidential hopeful said in an open letter.
"I repent now and forever and I promise I will never repeat it again."
Vadim Tudor has seen his party's popularity rise, especially in rural Romania where people are increasingly dissatisfied with persistent poverty and corruption, ahead of national elections on November 28 when he is running for president.
Critics say his new-found love of Jews is nothing more than a ploy to lure moderate voters but he insists he has had a true change of heart by reading the Bible.
And it gets even stranger from there. If nothing else, the story implies that Holocaust denial is not a vote-winner in Romania.
