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Posted By admin on April 13, 2017

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is offering to host a Holocaust education course for Sean Spicer and his staff after the White House press secretary wrongly claimed that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler did not use chemical weapons during World War II.

While you have apologized, this weeks incident as well as others (notably the International Holocaust Remembrance Day statement omitting Jews and your vociferous defense of it), have exposed a serious gap in your knowledge of the Holocaust, its impact and the lessons we can learn from it, ADL chief Jonathan Greenblatt wrote in a letter to SpicerThursday.

.@ADL_National has sent a letter to Sean Spicer offering to hold a Holocaust education training session for Spicer and W.H. staffers. pic.twitter.com/hrFsJe3jg6

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

We did not use chemical weapons in World War II. You had someone as despicable as Hitler who did not even sink to using chemical weapons, Spicer said during hisTuesdaypress briefing.

While Hitler is believed not to have used chemical weapons on the battlefield, the Nazis used Zyklon B and other types of poison in gas chambers to kill millions of Jews in concentration camps.

The spokesman apologized for his statement after stumbling over multiple attempts to clarify it.

Frankly, I mistakenly used an inappropriate and insensitive reference to the Holocaust, he said during an interview on CNN. For that I apologize, it was a mistake to do that.

Spicer said he knew that gas chambers were used to exterminate Jews during the Holocaust.

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Anti-Defamation League offers to host Holocaust course for Spicer - The Hill

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