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I think that for him, whether or not it occurred is irrelevant, but he uses the question to make a point. This is his simplified logic: if it did not occur, then there was no excuse to take Palestinian land. If it did occur, then ... there's still no excuse, since the Europeans and not the Palestinians are responsible.
Now there are two possible implications of this. One is that the Palestinians have been exploited, and they have borne the costs of Europe's mistakes and guilt instead of Europe bearing them itself. But I think what Ahmedinejad would say is something else entirely: in fact, the Holocaust is a myth created to facilitate Zionist-Crusader penetration of Arab land in Palestine. For him, the very fact that the guilt is so misplaced indicates that the Holocaust and Israel are an elaborate ruse created to cover up something greater and more sinister.
(Please don't flame me. This is a guess into his way of thinking, not a subscription to his ideas.)
Thanks for the article. It was enlightening.
I think one of the most interesting things about it was how Der Spiegel refers several times to the US' 'de facto defeat' and speaks as if the US has basically failed in Iraq. It's both heartening and depressing to finally see the press put it plainly, though we'd never see that in American press.
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