Whoopi Goldberg apologized for her comments about the Holocaust

Whoopi Goldberg apologized after being criticized for saying the Nazi genocide of six million Jews was not “a question of race”.

The Oscar-winning American actress said on the program The Viewof the Chanel ABC, that the Holocaust involved “two groups of white people”.

“In today’s program I said that the Holocaust ‘it is not a question of race but of man’s inhumanity to man’. He should have said it’s about both”, Goldberg wrote on Twitter on Monday night.

“The Jewish people around the world have always had my support and that will never change. I’m sorry for the damage I’ve caused,” added the 66-year-old actress..

Following Goldberg’s comments, critics responded that race was a determining factor in the genocide, since the Nazis believed they were a superior race.

“No @WhoopiGoldberg, the #Holocaust was about the systematic annihilation of the Jewish people by the Nazis, whom they considered to be an inferior race,” tweeted Jonathan Greenblatt, director of the Anti-Defamation League.

“They dehumanized them and used this racist propaganda to justify the murder of six million Jews. Holocaust distortion is dangerous,” he added.

For its part, the United States Holocaust Museum wrote on Twitter that “racism was central to Nazi ideology.”

“Jews were not defined by religion, but because of the race. Nazi racist beliefs fueled genocide and mass murder,” the institution stated without referring to Goldberg’s comments.

Goldberg, who has starred in films that have exposed racism against black people, such as the color purple, spoke during a discussion about a Tennessee school’s ban on the 1986 graphic novel Maus I: Story of a Survivorabout life in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning book, which portrays Jews as mice and Nazis as cats, is considered a powerful and accurate depiction of the Nazi murder of millions of Jews during World War II. (I)