On 12th May 2006, Larry Darby, who was elected Alabama’s Attorney General on the Democratic Party ticket in 2002, said in an interview that no more than 140,000 Jews died in World War II and that claims by historians that 6 million had died was false and was an invention of the “Holocaust industry”. At an interview the following day at a convention of the National Vanguard racist organization which champions white supremacy, Darby said “Opression of the white man must be stopped”. The Chairman of the Democratic Party in