by Joel B,Pollak, Breitbart:
Hollywood star and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger doubled down Friday on comparing the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot to Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass” that launched the Holocaust in 1938.
Schwarzenegger, speaking with CNN’s Chris Wallace, refused to back down from the comparison, which he first made in the aftermath of the Capitol riot in 2021. He cited his own Nazi father in comparing the two events. He seemed to think the common thread was that people were misled by charismatic leaders into doing bad things.
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However, setting side the ongoing controversy about whether President Donald Trump — who told protesters to march “peacefully and patriotically” to the Capitol — is responsible, the two events have nothing in common.
Kristallnacht, the U.S. Holocaust Museum notes, was “a series of pogroms against the Jewish population in Germany and recently incorporated territories.”
Germany/Austria: Headline in the New York Times after the anti-Jewish pogrom known as Kristallnacht, 11 November, 1938. (Photo by: Pictures from History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Dozens and perhaps hundreds Jews were killed as Nazi activists smashed Jewish-owned storefronts (hence the name “Kristallnacht,” for the broken glass on the streets) and set fire to synagogues.
10th November 1938: Three onlookers at a smashed Jewish shop window in Berlin following riots of the night of 9th November. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Photos the next day showed Jewish shopkeepers struggling to sweep up the destruction, which Nazi leaders described, falsely, as a spontaneous reaction to the assassination of a German diplomat by a Jewish refugee.
Germany: A Jewish-owned shop vandalized by Nazis with poster reading ‘Germans Defend Yourselves – Don’t Buy from Jews’, 1938. (Photo by: Pictures from History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
The Nazi regime began persecuting Jews in earnest following the event.
