Whoopi Goldberg is facing a backlash after she said on a US talk show that the Holocaust "was not about race".
The actress and television personality said on ABC's The View that the Nazi genocide of the Jews involved "two groups of white people".
Critics pointed out that Hitler himself had vented his hatred of the Jews in racial terms. She later apologised.
The Nazis, who believed themselves an Aryan "master race", murdered six million Jews in the Holocaust.
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Monday's discussion was sparked by a Tennessee school board's ban of a graphic novel about Nazi death camps during World War Two.
Maus, which depicts Jews as mice and Nazis as cats, has won a number of literary awards.
The school board said it banned the book because its profanity, nudity and depiction of suicide was inappropriate for 13-year-olds.
Goldberg, a 66-year-old Oscar-winning actress who has been on The View since 2007, told her co-hosts: "I'm surprised that's what made you uncomfortable, the fact that there was some nudity.
"I mean, it's about the Holocaust, the killing of six million people, but that didn't bother you? READ MORE...
