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(Reuters - Munich) American Vice-President Mike Pence laid a wreath at the memorial for the Dachau concentration camp as he toured Europe to solicit support for recognizing the unfair deal the world had imposed on the United States following the Cold War, leaning heavily on American leadership and economics to sustain the post-Cold War peace.

Taking questions, Pence was asked about the use of the term Holocaust yet not making reference to Jews, to which Pence offered an expansion of previous statements by the administration.

“The president has made his position clear,” said the vice-president, “The Jews are not the only victims of the Holocaust. There were Lutherans, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Catholics… the Holocaust affected many other faiths and creeds, and Hitler’s persecution of Christians is well-established fact. As NAZI Party Secretary Martin Bohrmann said, 'National Socialism and Christianity are irreconcilable.’”

“But isn’t the popular use of the term, Holocaust, usually used in reference to the genocide of the Jews?” asked Glen Thrush of the New York Times.

“Typical mainstream journalism,” replied Pence, shaking his head, “The term comes from the Greek, not the Jewish language, and its first usage in the post-medieval era was by Leitch Ritchie in reference to the genocide of Christians in France, possibly as a sacrifice to mollify Islamic Terrorists who had recently attacked Tours in Southern France.” He went on to stare at Thrush, who, at a loss for words, sat back down.

[TNFN Note: The Battle of Tours occurred more than 1000 years before Leitch Ritchie was born.]

“There were, of course, some non-Christian victims of Hitler, as some men suspected of crimes against nature were, in fact, merely political opponents,” the vice-president added.

“Wasn’t the LGBT community victimized as well?” asked Jeff Gannon.

“No,” said Pence, “If that was the case, they would have been liberated with the camps. Instead, they were moved to other prisons. Hitler didn’t treat the LGBT community any worse than anyone else.”

No more questions were taken and Pence headed to his next tour stop, described on the itinerary distributed by White House Chief Advisor Steve Bannon, as the Warsaw low-income housing projects built by the Germans during WWII to provide shelter to over 400,000 Jews.

Correction: An earlier version of this article misspelled White House Chief Advisor’s name as ‘Steve Bunyon’.