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Anne Frank's Stepsister: Donald Trump Is Another Hitler

Donald Trump is acting like another Adolf Hitler, Eva Schloss, an Auschwitz concentration survivor and Anne Frank’s stepsister said in a column published by Newsweek Wednesday, as polls show the United States presidential candidate has 41 percent support among Republican voters. 

"I think (Trump) is acting like another Hitler by inciting racism," wrote Schloss, the co-founder of the Anne Frank Trust U.K. "During his U.S. presidential campaign he has suggested the 'total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States,' as well as pledging to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico to keep illegal immigrants out." 

She added that "If Donald Trump became the next president of the U.S. it would be a complete disaster."

Read entire article at teleSUR