Michigan City, IN – Former Trump adviser Michael Flynn used a recent speech to blame Jews for their own deportations at the hands of the Nazis, saying Holocaust victims willingly handed their children over and got on trains to Auschwitz.
Flynn suggested complicity on the part of “any mother who would be told, ‘Give me your child, give me your baby, we’re going to separate you, we’re not just going to put you into a club coach car. We’re going to stuff you like a sardine into a train.’”
“There weren’t any guards,” Flynn continued, falsely suggesting that Jews could have simply left or defied Hitler’s soldiers.
In a lengthy rebuttal to Flynn’s comments, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum said on Twitter that “the assertion that Jews could have easily resisted during deportations to extermination simply due to their numerical strength compared to the guards oversimplifies the dire circumstances they faced.”
Flynn made his comments at an event in Michigan billed as “A Celebration of America’s Freedom and Future.” A video of the event was posted four days ago on Rumble, a YouTube alternative popular with right-wingers; Flynn’s Auschwitz rant begins a few minutes after the two-hour mark. The exact date of the event was unclear.
