Arnold Schwarzenegger ties January 6 insurrection to rise of Nazism

• Author: GADI ZAIG
• Published date: 07 October 2021
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

The Terminator star compared the two events, arguing that both their occurrences are a result of people being told lies about political elections on the CNN podcast "Total Recall: California's Political Circus."

Days after the insurrection occurred, Schwarzenegger called the violence Kristallnacht, which is considered the beginning of the Holocaust caused by the Nazis.

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"I grew up in Austria. I'm very aware of Kristallnacht, or The Night of Broken Glass. It was a night of rampage against the Jews carried out in 1938," he said in the podcast.

He compares that event to the insurrection by saying that "the broken glass was in the windows of the United States Capitol."

It was so sad what happened on January 6th," he continued. "I'm not calling anyone a Nazi by any means, but just what happens to when people are being lied to...