Norwegian cartoonist Finn Graff compared Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to the infamous Nazi death commander portrayed in Schindler’s List.
The Jerusalem Post reports that the caricature, published in Dagbladet, has raised a storm of controversy and explains the cartoon:
In the cartoon, Olmert is likened to SS Major Amon Goeth, the infamous commandant of the Plaszow death camp outside of Krakow, Poland, who was convicted of mass murder in 1946 and hanged for his crimes.
While in charge of Plaszow, Goeth would go out to the balcony on his villa, and engage in target practice by aiming his telescopic rifle and firing at random at Jews imprisoned there, often killing them.
The scene was famously depicted by director Steven Spielberg in his 1993 film, Schindler’s List.
