Oliver Stone apologises for claim Hitler was a 'scapegoat' in World War Two 'who did more damage to Russia than Jews'

Daniel Bates Daily Mail 07/27/2010 15:13

Stone with his wife Sun-jung Jung and their daughter Tara at the London premiere of the new documentary about South American politics

Director Oliver Stone has been forced to make a grovelling apology over an anti-Semitic outburst.The double Academy Award winner claimed that the Russians suffered more during the Second World War and that there was a Jewish 'domination of the media'.

Stone also said that Jews had '****ed up' U.S. foreign policy for years and suggested the British supported Hitler.

The comments brought swift condemnation from Jewish bodies in the U.S. and Israel and forced the 63-year-old to make a contrite apology.

He said: 'In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret.

'Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry,' he said, adding that the Holocaust was an 'atrocity'.

Stone made the comments during an interview with the Sunday Times last weekend to promote his forthcoming Secret History of America documentaries, which challenge received versions of events.

Stone said the ten-part series will address Stalin and Hitler 'in context' and added: 'Hitler was a Frankenstein but there was also a Dr Frankenstein.

'German industrialists, the Americans and the British. He had a taillot of support.'

In a misguided attempt to put the Holocaust into context, he said: 'Hitler did far more damage to the Russians than the Jewish people, 25 or 30million.'

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