Roseville, MN – Vaughn Klingenberg, a candidate for a school board election in Roseville, Minn., made an appearance on a VT Radio podcast in July to candidly discuss his extensive antisemitic beliefs and Holocaust denial, a recording shows.
During his interview on the VT Radio’s “Uncensored Alternative Foreign Policy Talk” podcast, Klingenberg made several claims about the Holocaust and Judaism that are highly questionable at best and unethical and bizarre at worst. Much of Klingenberg’s claims are based on a baseless theory that “big Zionist Jews” orchestrated the Holocaust to persecute “little Jews,” and that Nazis were actually trying to save Jewish people locked up in concentration camps.
“Zionist Jews wanted the Holocaust, not the Nazis,” Klingenberg claimed (13:00). “The thing is too and what annoys me, is that we’re doing the Jewish community a favor. We’re doing them a favor by giving them the facts about the Holocaust which they may not want to face. I think there’s profound cognitive dissidence in the Jewish community. But us Holocaust truthers are doing the Jews a favor.”
Earlier in the audio (9:45), Klingenberg also said that “the Jewish religion is an ideology based on victimization,” which is a lethal combination with “the master race ideology.”
The Holocaust was an organized genocide against Jewish individuals conducted by Nazi Germany during World War II. Adolf Hitler publicly labeled the Jewish community as the main scapegoat for Germany’s economic struggles in the early 20th century. This led to the widespread persecution of Jewish people, among others like Catholics, homosexuals and the mentally disabled. Over Hitler’s 12-year reign in Germany, millions of Jews were stripped of rights, forced into concentration camps and killed by overwork or outright murder.
Another fact that Klingenberg contested was the figure of 6 million Jewish death because of the Holocaust. He claims that it is closer to 300,000 deaths that were mostly due to Typhus and a famine in Germany at the time. He also said (16:30) that “there’s absolutely no evidence whatsoever that Jews were gassed in the concentration camps.”
Klingenberg has a website where he showcases books he has written, including “The Big Lie: The Holocaust.” The website also states that Klingenberg’s goal is to “assist individuals to think for themselves, free of external intellectual coercion or self-imposed political correctness.”
According to Klingenberg’s LinkedIn profile, he received a master’s degree in philosophy from Marquette University and taught a logic course, but he has worked as an insurance representative since 2019. According to the Minnesota Secretary of State’s office, Klingenberg filed his candidacy for the 2023 municipal and school district elections on Aug. 14 of this year. He is slated to appear on the ballot for the Roseville School Board election that will be held on Nov. 7.
Klingenberg did not respond to comment on his reason for running for school board and whether it has anything to do with his Holocaust beliefs.
Should he be elected, Klingenberg will be one of six members on the school board to oversee education policy decisions for a town of 36,000 people.
