New
York
(ANI):
Filmmaker
Oliver
Stone
has
apologized
for
comments
in
which
he
claimed
that
Jews
dominate
the
media
and
suggested
that
Adolph
Hitler"s
actions
during
WWII
should
be
put
into
context.
In
an
interview
with
the
Sunday
Times
of
London,
Stone
compared
Hitler
to
Frankenstein"s
monster,
reports
Entertainment
Weekly.
“There
was
also
a
Dr.
Frankenstein.
German
industrialists,
the
Americans
and
the
British.
He
had
a
lot
of
support….
Hitler
did
far
more
damage
to
the
Russians
than
the
Jewish
people," the
New
York
Post
quoted
Stone
as
saying
in
the
interview.
Stone
also
made
reference
to
“Jewish
domination
of
the
media,"
and
claimed
that
Israel
has
negatively
affected
U.S.
foreign
policy.
In
a
statement
issued
by
his
publicist,
Stone
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.
The
fact
that
the
Holocaust
is
still
a
very
important,
vivid
and
current
matter
today
is,
in
fact,
a
great
credit
to
the
very
hard
work
of
a
broad
coalition
of
people
committed
to
the
remembrance
of
this
atrocity
--
and
it
was
an
atrocity," the
statement
continued.
The
American
Jewish
Committee
released
a
statement
Monday
that
lambasted
Stone
for
“invoking
this
grotesque,
toxic
stereotype" and
compared
his
remarks
to
“one
of
the
drunken,
Jew-hating
rants
of
his
fellow
Hollywood
celebrity,
Mel
Gibson."
Stone"s
most
recent
film
“South
of
the
Border,"
offers
a
mostly
favorable
view
of
anti-US
Venezuelan
President
Hugo
Chavez.