Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley mentioned that movies that supplied “proof” that the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was once much like getting footage of the existence of Nazi concentration camps all the way through the Holocaust.

Showing on Thursday’s Craig Melvin Experiences on MSNBC, Brinkley said, “now We have film pictures of what happened on Jan. 6, and we have proof. Dwight Eisenhower, during World Battle II, made positive all the Holocaust camps have been filmed. So we’ve got the film pictures so we’re now combatting conspiracy theorists, deniers, and some Trumpeteers.”

Under Eisenhower, who later was America’s thirty fourth president, U.S. troops filmed the liberation of a couple of focus camps, together with these at Ohrdruf and Dachau.

“However my fear is what can we name this and ensure we honor nowadays, this darkish-stain day day by day, so we obtained to maintain saying ‘Jan. 6,’” stated Brinkley. “I believe this is like Dec. 7 Pearl Harbor, it is just like the Sept. 11 tragedy, and we additionally need to no longer be afraid to name it the Trump Rebel of Jan. 6 as a result of, finally, all roads to what went incorrect went that day lead to Donald Trump’s sick-habits, his anti-democratic stance he took, the Large Lie, after the presidential election tallies got here in, and Joe Biden had gained by way of thousands and thousands of votes.”

Watch above, by way of MSNBC.

Disclosure: The late paternal grandfather of the creator of this text survived Dachau.

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