Berlusconi Compares His Travails to Those of the Jews Under Hitler
That's going to go over well
ROME — Italian ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi has likened Jewish suffering in Hitler's Germany to what his family feels about his judicial woes, triggering criticism from Italian politicians and Jewish leaders that he is trivializing the Holocaust.
The BBC translated the former leader as saying his children "feel like the families of Jews… under Hitler's regime."
Looming for Berlusconi is a ban on holding public office because of a tax fraud conviction. Berlusconi said his adult children tell him they feel like the Jewish families must have felt like in Hitler's Germany, quoting them as saying "everyone's on top of us." The centre-right leader made the comment to Italian journalist Bruno Vespa for a soon-to-be-published book, advance excerpts of which were made public Wednesday.
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You know who else wrote a book?