The Holocaust
"We can understand why people would be deeply offended," the PM's spokesperson said.
"While Whoopi has apologised, I’ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments," ABC's president said.
The Sister Act star was slammed for saying the historic atrocity was "about man’s inhumanity to man" on US daytime show, The View.
Her comments were met with shocked outbursts and murmurs from others.
Roger Hallam's downplaying of Nazi genocide “unreservedly denounced” by British chapter.
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He's having absolutely none of it.
On 27 January we mark the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz