"It is important to remember that Hitler did in fact use chemical weapons to murder 6 million Jews in the Holocaust, as well as millions of other innocent individuals". "So you have to, if you're Russian Federation, ask yourself: Is this a country that you, and a regime, that you want to align yourself with".
Later asked to explain, Spicer said he meant to say that Hitler had not used chemical weapons in battlefield situations as Assad did last week.
Spicer was defending President Donald Trump's decision to send a missile strike on Syria, saying Assad was the worst leader they had seen.
"The president's tough talk on a variety of subjects was to get results for the American people", said White House press secretary Sean Spicer.
While audible gasps could be heard in the briefing room as soon as Spicer made the comment, it also instantly spread on several social forums online.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer, in an effort to shame Russia's alliance with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his use of chemical weapons, said Tuesday April 11, 2017 Adolf Hitler "didn't even sink to using chemical weapons" during World.
"I was trying to draw a distinction of the tactic of using airplanes to drop chemical weapons on population centers", he said.
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"There is not in the - he brought them into the holocaust centers, I understand that", said Spicer. "President Trump has got to fire Sean Spicer". "I can't even believe that anybody in the media, much less all of the major networks, led with this story".
Yad Vashem expressed "deep concern regarding the inaccurate and insensitive use of terms related to the Holocaust by the White House press secretary". That, obviously, was not my intention.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman said contemporary comparisons with Nazi atrocities were ill-advised.
Then, as Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) rolls her eyes, Jonah Ryan (Timothy Simons) asks her, "Ma'am, this morning he told me that Jews cause hurricanes?" "Moreover, they are liable to strengthen the hands of those whose goal is to distort history", it said.
The Anne Frank Center is a New York-based nonprofit organization that targets discrimination and anti-Semitism.
Despite the apologies, Spicer's remarks provoked outrage around the globe from those who claimed he showed insensitivity to victims of the Holocaust.
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