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White House press secretary Sean Spicer: Hitler 'didn't even sink to using chemical weapons'

April 11, 2017 at 17:36
Hitler didn't use chemical weapons on the battlefield, but used them as a tool of mass murder against his own civilian population, killing millions of Jews, gypsies, gay people, communists and other political prisoners using zyklon B and other poisonous gases.

WASHINGTON — White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer declared unequivocally that Adolf Hitler didn't use chemical weapons during World War II on Tuesday, triggering a firestorm as people pointed out Nazis' use of gas to kill millions of Jews and others during the Holocaust.

"We didn’t use chemical weapons in World War II. You had someone as despicable as Hitler who didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons," Spicer declared as he attacked Russia for backing Bashar al-Assad's brutal regime in Syria.

He dug himself deeper when offered a chance to clarify a few minutes later.

"When you come to sarin gas he was not using the gas on his own people the same way that Assad is doing," he said to shock in the White House briefing room.

Sean Spicer should resign after Hitler chemical weapons gaffe

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