Berlusconi family 'feel like the Jews under Hitler'

[muriel_volestrangler]

The former Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has said his children "feel like the families of Jews... under Hitler's regime".
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Renzo Gettegna, of the Union of Italian Jewish Communities, said they were "offensive to the memory of those deprived of every right and, after atrocities and unutterable suffering, their lives".
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Berlusconi is no stranger to controversy. He is reported to have said that "Mussolini never killed anyone. Mussolini used to send people on vacation in internal exile."

And he once compared the president of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, to a Nazi prison guard, and described US President Barack Obama as "suntanned".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24836698

Berlusconi also allied his party with that of Mussolini's granddaughter: http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/italian-pm-allies-with-mussolinis-granddaughter/2006/02/18/1140151853205.html

It's amazing he got elected and re-elected. He's as bad as the worst of the Republicans, and those ones normally got chucked out at the next election after saying things as dumb and offensive as he has regularly done.

[msanthrope]

1. That should help. nt

[Nye Bevan]

2. "The Economist" got it right in July 2003:

[Iggo]

3. It's like their own personal Holocaust!

And before anyone jumps down his kids' throats as if they wore a tasteless Halloween costume, Berlusconi himself said this...not his kids.

[pitbullgirl1965]

4. I'm so tired of these people comparing everything they don't like

to the Holocaust.