Auschwitz Memorial condemns GOP rep who filmed video in gas chambers

[RandySF]

Rep. Clay Higgins (R-La.) is facing criticism from officials at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum Tuesday, after he filmed a video inside a former gas chamber in the Nazi concentration camp.

According to a report by The Associated Press, officials from the memorial said the video was disrespectful and that the sign in the building asks visitors to "maintain silence."

Local Louisiana news outlets reported Higgins's video Saturday. In it, the lawmaker discusses how the gas chambers worked, using the site as an example of why the U.S. military "must be invincible."


https://www.google.com/amp/thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/340636-auschwitz-memorial-condemns-gop-rep-who-filmed-video-in-gas%3Famp

[Lotusflower70]

1. That's sick

He is a POS for doing that.

[QC]

2. At least he didn't take a selfie in one of the ovens.

I can't say that would have surprised me.

[exboyfil]

3. Actually it is an illustration that when people

are fleeing a terror, you let them in.

[BannonsLiver]

4. What an asshole

Textbook example of the "ugly American" many Europeans are intimately familiar with.

[Chasstev365]

5. I think he has it backwards

An invincible military in Europe between 1940-1943 is what let to the establishment of gas chambers in the first place.

To film a gas chamber as a pro-military message is not only cynical and disrespectful; it' stupid!,

[Behind the Aegis]

6. The asshole is clearly not familiar with American history and the Jews.

The US did next to NOTHING in helping Jews and others escape the concentration camps, despite having military might. What a callous, ahistorical bunch of propaganda!

[leftstreet]

7. Which military is he glorifying?

The US military did nothing for the millions who died

Prick

[MFM008]

8. Omg

Those chambers are covered with the scratches of nazi victims of gassing. These MFrs have NO shame.
It's dizzying.

[lpbk2713]

9. Rethugs have no sensitivity. They know no boundaries.

This guy is an asshole.

[Saboburns]

10. As VP Dick Cheney wore a jacket with the word STAFF on the front while at Aushwitz

No fooling. You can google it.

It was a huge International Remembrance and Old Dick was the US representative. It was a solemn, serious, and important International event remembering the terrible happenings that occured there by the Nazis. And VP Dick Cheney wears a jacket into Aushwitz with the word STAFF written in large letters. He sits there on stage for an hour or more wearing a STAFF jacket at a Death Camp.

Think about that for a minute.

[mr_lebowski]

11. It was a knit cap, not a jacket ...emblazoned with STAFF ... either way tho, it's still classless AF

We didn't call him Darth Cheney for nothing!

[oberliner]

12. The Soviet Red Army liberated Auschwitz

Not the US.

[Lee-Lee]

13. I've been there. You cannot miss either the signs asking for silence

or the incredibly somber, serious and respectful atmosphere that demands silence even if there were no signs.

[JI7]

14. this guy is a total mess

i did a quick search on him and there is so much shit about him. yet there are people who support shit like this.

ignorant asshole

[ck4829]

15. Studying on how to do it for all the 'others' here?

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[oberliner]

16. By the way, Clay Higgins has also said the following

:large

[JI7]

17. some Trump Supporters went on Auschwitz Museum Twitter page to attack

Link to tweet