Oliver Stone, Hitler, and anti-Semitism

In an interview with the Sunday Times of London to promote his new documentary, South of the Border, that has sparked outrage across the Internet, Oliver Stone was seen as defending Adolf Hitler.
 
"Hitler was a Frankenstein, but there was also a Dr. Frankenstein," Stone said. "German industrialists, the Americans and the British. He had a lot of support. Hitler did far more damage to the Russians than the Jewish people."
 
Stone's comments—he also discussed "the Jewish domination of the media" and said Israel had "fucked up United States foreign policy for years" —were quickly condemned by the American Jewish Committee in a statement.
 
"By invoking this grotesque, toxic stereotype, Oliver Stone has outed himself as an anti-Semite," David Harris, the committee's executive director, wrote. (Earlier this year, Stone told a group of television critics that "Hitler is an easy scapegoat," according to the New York Times.)
 
Stone, whose next film, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, will be released in September, released an apologetic statement on Monday afternoon: "In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret. Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry. The fact that the Holocaust is still a very important, vivid and current matter today is, in fact, a great credit to the very hard work of a broad coalition of people committed to the remembrance of this atrocity -- and it was an atrocity."
 

Read original story in The New York Times | Tuesday, July 27, 2010

 

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Gee, Ollie, if "The Jews" dominate the media, was it a good idea to give an anti-Semitic statement to "The Jewish Dominated Media ?"
 


 

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