"Sean Spicer now lacks the integrity to serve as White House press secretary, and President Trump must fire him at once," said Steven Goldstein, executive director of the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect."Later on Tuesday, Spicer apologised and said he should not have made that comparison.The video was retweeted more than a thousand times, with many Twitter users referencing China industrial pump Suppliers Spicers comments.The US Holocaust Museum did not mention Spicers comments directly, but sent out a tweet shortly after the briefing that showed graphic footage of dead bodies US forces found while liberating the Buchenwald concentration camp. US House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi called on Republican President Donald Trump to reject Spicers assertion. Any attack on innocent people is reprehensible and inexcusable," Spicer said in the statement.Shortly after the White House briefing, Spicer e-mailed a statement to reporters in response to their queries, but had stopped short of offering an explicit apology.

Washington: White House press secretary Sean Spicer triggered an uproar on Tuesday by saying Adolf Hitler did not use chemical weapons.Spicer made the assertion at a daily news briefing, during a discussion about the April 4 chemical weapons attack in Syria that killed 87 people. Washington has blamed the attack on the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad."In no way was I trying to lessen the horrendous nature of the Holocaust. I shouldnt have done it and I wont do it again," Spicer told CNN in an interview.

I was trying to draw a distinction of the tactic of using airplanes to drop chemical weapons on population centers.It was not the first time the White House has had to answer questions about the Holocaust."Spicers assertion, made during the Jewish holiday of Passover, sparked instant outrage on social media and from some Holocaust memorial groups who accused him of minimising Hitlers crimes."Sean Spicer must be fired, and the President must immediately disavow his spokesmans statements," Pelosi said in a statement. Many Jews as well as others were killed in gas chambers in European concentration camps. "It was inappropriate and insensitive. Critics in January noted the administrations statement marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, which omitted any mention of Jewish victims. The White House did not immediately respond when asked to comment on Pelosis statement."You had someone as despicable as Hitler who didnt even sink to using chemical weapons," Spicer said when asked about Russias alliance with the Syrian government.

At the time, Spicer defended that statement by saying it had been written in part by a Jewish staff member whose family members had survived the Holocaust.When a reporter asked Spicer if he wanted to clarify his comments, he said: "I think when you come to sarin gas, there was no, he was not using the gas on his own people the same way that Assad is doing. He later apologised after his comments drew immediate criticism on social media and elsewhere for overlooking the fact that millions of Jews were killed in Nazi gas chambers.The Nazis murdered six million Jews during World War Two. "It was a mistake