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Actress Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended for two weeks from her role as presenter of US talk show The View following her comments that the Holocaust wasn't about race but involved "two groups of white people".聽 She apologised but then caused further offence while attempting to explain her remarks on a late-night show.

The 66-year-old Oscar-winning actress, who has been on The View since 2007, first made the controversial comments on Monday's show while discussing a Tennessee school board's banning of a graphic novel about the Holocaust on the grounds that it showed nudity, profanity and suicide.

A lesser-known aspect of the Holocaust is that more than 20,000 black people in Germany were also persecuted. Olivia Marks-Woldman, Chief Executive of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, explains how the Nazis had an entirely racist outlook and believed that anyone that they didn't consider "pure-blooded" were "sub human".

She says people's understanding about the persecution of black people under the Nazis is not as widespread as there is more awareness about the Holocaust, and that her organisation is attempting to bring the stories of black, LGBT and disabled communities to the wider public. She goes on to say that she thought Whoopi Goldberg's comment "was factually wrong and displayed significant ignorance... We know this kind of ignorance and distortion of history can be very dangerous."

Photo: Whoopi Goldberg in New York, US, October 2021 Credit: Getty Images

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