Schwarzenegger Once Again Compares Jan. 6 to Kristallnacht

Movie star and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has once again compared the Jan. 6 capital breach to Kristallnacht, the attack on the Jewish people that ultimately led to the Holocaust.
Schwarzenegger’s comments came Friday during an episode of CNN’s Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace, when he defended his previous opinion that the two events were similar in that they both occurred because citizens were lied to. “The Terminator” actor, who strongly opposes former President Donald Trump, told Wallace that Americans are being misled the same way his own Nazi father was during World War II.
“Kristallnacht” or “Night of Broken Glass” took place on Nov. 9-10 in 1938. It’s estimated hundreds of Jews were killed when Nazi activists smashed Jewish-owned storefronts, thus the name “Kristallnacht,” which referred to all the broken glass on the streets. Synagogues were also set on fire while homes, schools, hospitals, and cemeteries were destroyed. While Jews were already being discriminated against in Germany, the incident instigated myriad arrests and deportations and the subjugation of 30,000 Jews to concentration camps. World War II broke out nine months later….}