Berlusconi's Holocaust remark 'absurd'

(see related) (ANSA) - Berlin, April 28 - Italian ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi's claim that Germans denied the existence of concentration camps "was so absurd that the German government won't comment," said Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman Steffen Feibert on Monday.
    Over the weekend the media magnate and centre-right leader said "for the Germans the concentration camps never existed," in a fresh attack on his old foe, European Parliament Speaker Martin Schulz, whom he described as a death-camp trusty in a widely criticised jab after taking over the EU's rotating presidency in 2003. Berlusconi's supporters say his remarks were being manipulated out of context for political gain.