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Prominent white supremacist and Donald Trump supporter, Richard Spencer has been back in the news this week after he praised Trump for not mentioning the six million Jews killed in a statement commemorating international Holocaust Memorial Day.

Trump has faced widespread criticism for the omission, but the administration has repeatedly defended the statement.

Senator Tim Cain went as far as calling it a form of Holocaust denial. Spencer however praised the statement as the de-judification of the Holocaust.

Earlier this week, Juan Gonzales and I spoke to Andrea Pitzer. Her upcoming book is titled One Long Night, a Global History of Concentration Camps.

It looks at mass civilian detention without trial from 1896 to today. Andrea Pitzer began by commenting on Trump's statement.

One thing I think is very interesting about the omission of the Jews in Holocaust Remembrance Day statement is again looking back at the history that it's perhaps a mistake that that was done at first.

But it may have been an omission. It's a very strange omission given all the concerns that were raised about whether Trump had the support of white nationalists and whether that was reciprocated during the campaign to have forgotten that when it would have been an easy thing to do correctly.

But even if one gives them the benefit of a doubt that it was an error when it was pointed out, it was doubled down on.

It was a strange statement that it was actually meant to be inclusive. It was including all groups. And I think that's more where it becomes disturbing.

Because this is one of the lines that we've seen in Soviet Russia and in some white nationalist sectors that while sure they say a lot of people died in the war, as if it were just an inevitable casualty of war.

And certainly tens of millions of people were casualties of combat and other crises during the war as there are in many wars.

But it's really a singular moment, the attempt to eradicate a people from the face of the earth. And it was also the Jews, but especially the Jews, but also the Roma and Sinti, the Gypsies, as they also were known.

And this was really to bend the power of a state during wartime, to eradicate people from the face of the earth, even when it went against your war interests, is a really singular thing.

And I think to talk about the Holocaust without acknowledging that is really to miss its singular moment.

So, Andrew Pitzer, I wanted to go to what the White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said, defending the decision not to reference Jews in Trump's statement on international Holocaust remembrance.

What does that mean?

I think the Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Well, I think he's aware of what people have been saying, but I think by and large he's been praised for it.

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