Louie Gohmert: “I appreciate my friend so much, bringing back the account of what happened. And I can remember--I majored in history in…”

“I appreciate my friend so much, bringing back the account of what happened. And I can remember--I majored in history in college--reading about General Eisenhower ordering American troops, Allied troops, to go gather people from the German communities near the concentration camps where so many Jews were being killed, ruthlessly killed. It is horrific to even contemplate what went on. And Eisenhower had ordered that, apparently, they bring the community citizens and have them help clean up the concentration camps. And the reason that was given was so that they could never say these things didn't happen--and I thought at the time that really is going perhaps too far--because these people turned a blind eye to what was going on. Surely they suspected. They knew there was ash going over their communities. Surely they suspected. But I never dreamed we would reach a day when what Eisenhower feared would occur actually came about, and that is a time when people are finding it popular to deny that the Holocaust ever happened. So I am grateful that Israel has this Yom HaShoah, the Israel Holocaust remembrance day. But it should not just be for Israel. America needs to stand with Israel. There are those who are calling for extermination of Jews around the Earth again. It is unbelievable. It is unbelievable. It has been shocking to see anti-Semitism growing again around Europe. To me, as an American, it has been even more shocking to see growing sentiment on U.S.…”