Warsaw, Poland – Officials at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum have criticized a Louisiana congressman for narrating part of a five-minute video from inside a former gas chamber at the Nazi concentration camp in Poland.
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Louisiana news outlets report that U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins posted the video Saturday. In it, the Republican says the killings took only about 20 minutes and show why the U.S. military “must be invincible.”
A post on the Auschwitz Memorial’s official Twitter account said Tuesday that a former gas chamber is not a stage but a place where there should be respectful silence. Later Tuesday, it posted a photo of the entrance sign to that building, asking visitors to “maintain silence here.”
Higgins’ offices were closed Tuesday for the July Fourth holiday and he could not immediately be reached for comment.
I’m sorry, but he’s right. And people making an issue about it is absolutely wrong.
Silence?! That’s what got Jews into the gas chambers in the first place! Kudos to this congressman for using the appropriate stage for an important message! It is disrespectful to the memory of the kedoshim who died in those chambers to just use them as solemn and forlorn memorials.
A goyish kupp on the part of that southern Congressman, for posting such a video!
He may have a goyyishe kop but somebody has to have the guts to speak up!!
Problem is the Nazis weren’t “foreign invaders”. They were democratically elected and aided by German citizens.
I have not seen the video. Seems to me the fellow was trying to help. Yelling at him over what might have been a mistake (or not) done by a producer or cameraman seems ungrateful.
Well articulated Mr.Congressman. I tip my hat to you, in taking the time and the effort to make this all important trip to Auschwitz especially when you have very few constituents in your district who are from the Jewish persuasion. Thank You !
When its convenient the GOP uses the Holocaust as a backdrop for their fund raising. But most of the time they are courting the alt-white neo nazi gangsters like Alek Jones, Breitbar antasemitin, KKK Duvid Duke and the rest. And this GOP Congressman’s point about the US military? Consider that it was the Red Army that liberated Aushwitz…