Anthony Scaramucci Raked On Twitter For Holocaust Poll

Anthony Scaramucci, who famously served as President Trump’s communications director for only 11 days before he was booted following an obscenity-laced tirade to The New Yorker, riled social media users with a Twitter poll asking the 24,000-plus followers of his new media venture, The Scaramucci Post, how many Jews they think the Nazis murdered in the Holocaust during World War II.

The poll included as one multiple-choice answer “more than 5 million” (historical accounts say about 6 million Jews were murdered during the genocide orchestrated by Adolf Hitler and his Third Reich), but other choices vastly underestimated the death toll, including one that put it at less than 1 million.

The poll, which was up for only about 90 minutes before it was deleted, showed that of the 4,577 respondents, 20 percent put the number of Jews who died in the Holocaust at less than 1 million. Another 4 percent said between 1 and 2 million Jews died; 7 percent said between 2 and 3 million died; and 69 percent said more than 5 million died.

Outrage over the poll was swift on Twitter, where users said The Scaramucci Post — launched in September — was pandering to Holocaust deniers.

After the poll was taken down, The Scaramucci Post began retweeting posts defending it. Nearly a third of respondents answered the poll incorrectly, one user pointed out. Another said it was necessary after outrage over the Anne Frank Halloween costume offered by an online company (like the poll, it has been removed), and yet another person said the high rate of incorrect responses indicates a need for more education.

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Beyond the 6 million Jews who died in the Holocaust, millions of other non-Jews also lost their lives at the hands of the Nazis, according to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, which also lists:

• About 7 million Soviet civilians, including 1.3 million Soviet Jewish children who are included in the 6 million Jews who died
• About 3 million Soviet prisoners of war, including about 50,000 Jewish soldiers
• About 1.8 million non-Jewish Polish citizens, including between 50,000 and 100,000 members of the Polish elite
• About 312,000 Serb citizens in the territories of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Up to 250,000 people with disabilities who were living in institutions
• Between 196,000 and 220,000 Roma (Gypsies)
• About 1,900 Jehovah’s Witnesses
• At least 70,000 repeat criminal offenders and so-called “asocials”
• An undetermined number of German political opponents and resistance activists in Axis-occupied territories
• Hundreds and possibly thousands of homosexuals, who the museum said were possibly also counted in the 70,000 repeat offenders and “asocials”

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