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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
(3,077 posts)He is a POS for doing that.
QC
(26,371 posts)I can't say that would have surprised me.
exboyfil
(17,863 posts)are fleeing a terror, you let them in.
BannonsLiver
(16,387 posts)Textbook example of the "ugly American" many Europeans are intimately familiar with.
Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)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
(53,959 posts)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
(36,108 posts)The US military did nothing for the millions who died
Prick
Those chambers are covered with the scratches of nazi victims of gassing. These MFrs have NO shame.
It's dizzying.
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)This guy is an asshole.
Saboburns
(2,807 posts)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
(33,643 posts)We didn't call him Darth Cheney for nothing!
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Not the US.
Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)or the incredibly somber, serious and respectful atmosphere that demands silence even if there were no signs.
JI7
(89,250 posts)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
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