In comments to reporters on Tuesday, Sean Spicer said Adolf Hitler “didn’t even sink to the level of using chemical weapons. . . . He was not using the gas on his own people the same way that (Bashar al-)Assad is doing.”
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Spicer said Hitler never used chemical weapons. The Nazi regime brought an industrial approach to mass murder of its citizens and others it sought to exterminate. The construction of gas chambers and the use of deadly gas was fundamental to that strategy.
While the convention against chemical weapons did not exist in World War II, the modern definition would encompass the Nazi gas chambers. It makes no difference whether victims are brought to a room filled with deadly gas or if the gas is sent to them in a bombing raid.
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