At a rally of corona vaccination opponents, the nephew of former US President JFK made confused comparisons.
Washington, DC – On Sunday (January 23, 2022), opponents of corona vaccination gathered for a rally in the US capital Washington, DC. Also present was Robert F. Kennedy Junior, who had repeatedly attracted attention in recent months with confused comparisons.
The son of the former Minister of Justice, for example, had introduced the leading US immunologist Dr. Anthony Fauci was shown sporting a Hitler mustache in a video in December. Kennedy made a connection between the protective measures against Corona in the USA and Nazi propaganda. Fauci’s recommendations were reminiscent of “fascist” measures. Now he seems to be claiming that today’s opponents of vaccination are worse off than Anne Frank (1929-1945), who fell victim to the Holocaust.
Robert F. Kennedy Junior: US opponents of vaccination outraged with comparison
“Even in Hitler’s Germany you could cross the Alps into Switzerland. You could hide in the attic like Anne Frank did,” said the former US President’s nephew, according to a report by CNN. “I visited East Germany with my father in 1962 and met people who climbed over the wall and escaped, so it was possible. Many died, that’s true. But it was possible.”
What Kennedy left out of his statements, however, is the fact that, in addition to Anne Frank, six million other Jews were killed by the Nazis. As a teenager, she also hid in a house in the Netherlands, not in the German Reich. In 1944 she and her family were discovered by the Nazis and taken to a concentration camp.
Vaccination opponent Robert F. Kennedy Junior’s comments ‘reckless’ and ‘outrageous’
The Holocaust Memorial in Washington has condemned the statements made by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as “reckless” and “outrageous”. It was insulting to “carelessly compare the Holocaust and the murder of six million Jews for a political agenda,” the museum said on Twitter on Monday. According to a CNN report, there was at least one local man in Washington wearing a yellow Jewish star, which Jews were required to wear under Nazi rule in the German Reich.
There is no general corona vaccination requirement in the USA, but many cities require proof of vaccination to be shown when entering restaurants, bars or gyms. US President Joe Biden recently failed in the Supreme Court with a vaccination requirement for large companies. The vaccination rate in the USA is around 63.2 percent (fully vaccinated). Only about 25.4 percent of the population have received a booster vaccination so far. (lrg/epd)
In Germany, too, connections are often made between corona measures and the Nazi regime. At a “Querdenker” demo in 2020, a woman known today as “Jana from Kassel” compared herself to resistance fighter Sophie Scholl.
