By Mtv.com

Director Oliver Stone scrambled to explain himself on Monday (July 26) after comments he made to the UK paper The Sunday Times about the Holocaust were deemed anti-Semitic and racist. The controversial “JFK” auteur got into hot water when the paper printed an interview in which he suggested that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is misunderstood, and Jewish control of the media resulted in the slaughter of millions of Russians by Adolf Hitler being glossed over in favor of stories on the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust.

“Hitler was a Frankenstein, but there was also a Dr. Frankenstein … German industrialists, the Americans and the British. He had a lot of support,” Stone reportedly told the paper, adding that “we don’t know the full story” on Ahmadinejad, who has frequently called for the destruction of Israel.

Describing why he thinks so little has been made of the German slaughter of tens of millions of Russians during World War II in favor of stories on the “final solution” plot against Jews by the Third Reich, Stone said, “The Jewish domination of the media … there’s a major lobby in the United States. They are hard workers. They stay on top of every comment, the most powerful lobby in Washington. Israel has f—ed up United States foreign policy for years.”

In January, Stone referred to Hitler as an “easy scapegoat” who has been used “cheaply” throughout history.

Stone’s latest comment drew immediate fire from the Anti-Defamation League and other Jewish groups, which branded the statements as racist and anti-Semitic. ADL National Director Abraham H. Foxman issued a statement condemning the director. It read in part: “Oliver Stone has once again shown his conspiratorial colors with his comments about ‘Jewish domination of the media’ and control over U.S. foreign policy. His words conjure up some of the most stereotypical and conspiratorial notions of undue Jewish power and influence. The myth of Jewish control is an old stereotype that persists to this day. Stone uses it in a particularly egregious fashion by suggesting that Hitler has gotten an unfair shake because of Jewish influence.”

Stone issued an apology on Monday afternoon that read: “In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret. Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry. The fact that the Holocaust is still a very important, vivid and current matter today is, in fact, a great credit to the very hard work of a broad coalition of people committed to the remembrance of this atrocity — and it was an atrocity.”

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