‘It began with words’, Holocaust Museum warns against post-election hate speech

‘The Holocaust did not begin with killing; it began with words’, is the powerful warning given by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum following the election aftermath.

The museum, a living memory to those senselessly slaughtered in the holocaust and a reminder to confront hatred and prevent genocide, said it was ‘deeply alarmed at the hateful rhetoric’ that seems to have been normalised following Trump's victory.

The statement was released in response to comments made by Richard Spencer, leader of the National Policy Institute, a white nationalist organisation, which the museum say often alluded to Nazism.
Spencer implied the media protected Jews and even said, ‘One wonders if these are people at all?’

He also said that America belongs to white people and whites face a choice of ‘conquer or die’.

‘The targeting of Jews was central to Nazi racist ideology.

This April 1945 photo shows children and other prisoners liberated by the 3rd U.S Army

‘The Germans attempted to kill every Jewish man, woman and child they could find. Nazi racism extended to other groups,’ added the museum’s powerful statement.

‘By the end of World War II, the Germans and their collaborators had murdered six million Jews and millions of other innocent civilians, many of whom were targeted for racial reasons.’

The Holocaust Memorial Museum called on citizens and leaders alike to confront racist thinking and divisive hate speech.