Anne Frank Center demands apology from Tim Allen over ’30s Germany comment

Tim Allen has been blasted by the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect for his recent comment which compared supporting President Donald Trump to ‘30s Germany.
Tim one of the few Hollywood superstars to be outspoken about his conservative political views, caused a stir when he told Jimmy Kimmel last week (ends19Mar17): “You’ve gotta be real careful around here. You get beat up if don’t believe what everybody believes. This is like 1930s Germany. I don’t know what happened. If you’re not part of the group, ‘you know what we believe is right,’ I go, ‘Well, I might have a problem with that’.”
While the comic actor, the voice of Disney favourite Buzz Lightyear, said the throwaway comment in a jokey manner, which host Jimmy laughed along with, not everyone saw the funny side.
“Tim, have you lost your mind?” the organisation’s executive director Steven Goldstein asked incredulously in a statement.
“No one in Hollywood today is subjecting you or anyone else to what the Nazis imposed on Jews in the 1930s – the world’s most evil program of dehumanization, imprisonment and mass brutality, implemented by an entire national government, as the prelude for the genocide of nearly an entire people.”
He also called upon the Home Improvement star to apologise to “the Jewish people and, to be sure, the other peoples also targeted by the Nazis”.
Tim faced a similar response online, with Twitter users advising the comic to educate himself a little more on what Germany during Hitler’s regime was like for a lot of people.
Others leapt to his defence though, claiming his comments “destroys Hollywood liberals over their intolerant elitism”.