Alaskan Republican Congressmember Don Young is under fire over his recent comments that Jewish people would not have suffered the Holocaust if they’d been armed. This is Rep. Young in a recording aired this week by Alaska Public Media.
Rep. Don Young: “How many millions of people were shot and killed because they were unarmed? Fifty million in Russia, because their citizens weren’t armed. How many Jews were put into the ovens because they were unarmed?”
In a statement to The Washington Post, the Anti-Defamation League condemned Congressmember Young’s comments, saying, “It is mind-bending to suggest that personal firearms in the hands of the small number of Germany’s Jews … could have stopped the totalitarian onslaught of Nazi Germany when the armies of Poland, France, Belgium and numerous other countries were overwhelmed by the Third Reich.”