Doctor compares situation on Nauru to crimes of the Holocaust

The Australian Medical Association (AMA)’s Dr Paul Bauert has compared the crimes of the Holocaust to the current situation on Nauru. CEO of Executive Council of Australian Jewry Peter Wertheim says that this ‘appalling misrepresentation’ and ‘dumbing down’ of history is ‘extremely cruel’ to the few Holocaust survivors left and desensitises the general public to what people went through in concentration camps. The Australian Jewry has lodged a formal complaint with the AMA, and Mr Wertheim says that Dr Bauert’s apology on Twitter was inadequate.