Arnold Schwarzenegger - works with the Auschwitz Jewish Centre Foundation

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Arnold Schwarzenegger says it's time to 'terminate' hate in emotional Auschwitz visit
The visit was part of his work with the Auschwitz Jewish Centre Foundation
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Film icon Arnold Schwarzenegger toured the site of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp on Wednesday, meeting a Holocaust survivor and saying it was time to "terminate" hatred.

The "Terminator" actor and former governor of California viewed the compound made up of gas chambers, watchtowers and barracks that still stand today since being used to murder up to 960,000 Jews and over 100,000 Poles, Roma, and Soviet prisoners of war.

Speaking in a former synagogue that is now home to the Auschwitz Jewish Centre Foundation, Mr Schwarzenegger said: "This is a story that has to stay alive, this is a story that we have to tell over and over again,"

The 75-year-old actor toured the site alongside Simon Bergson, founder of the Auschwitz Jewish Centre Foundation, who was born to survivors of Auschwitz.

The native Austrian, who became a naturalised US citizen in 1983, said that he and Bergson, who are similar in age, were united in their work.

"I was the son of a man who fought in the Nazi war and was a soldier,

"Let's fight prejudice together and let's just terminate it once and for all." Schwarzenegger said in Oswiecim, the town where Auschwitz is located.

Bergson added: "Arnold and I are living proof that within one generation hatred can be shifted entirely. Governor, thank you for joining us here today."

During his visit, which was his first to the site, Mr Schwarzenegger also met a Holocaust survivor who, as a 3-year-old child, was subjected to experiments by the notorious Nazi doctor Josef Mengele.

Mr Schwarzenegger has spoken openly in the past about being the son of Nazi soldier Gustav Schwarzenegger.

In a video posted to social media in March, Mr Schwarzenegger appealed to Russians to look beyond the lies that they were being fed from President Vladimir Putin in regards to the war in Ukraine.

In the video, he described his own painful memories about how his own father returned home from war a broken man, physically and emotionally, after being lied to concerning the reasons for war.

Mr Schwarzenegger's visit to Auschwitz is part of his work with the Auschwitz Jewish Centre Foundation, whose mission is to fight hatred through education.

He received the foundation's inaugural "Fighting Hatred" award in June for his anti-hatred stance on social media.

Vowing it would not be his last visit, Mr Schwarzenegger said, "I'll be back."

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If he wants to "terminate Hate", he will have to Expel those who declared War on the Gentiles 5783 years ago.

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It was 5782 years, but I think they just celebrated Parasite New Year's.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger to receive courage award for work in fighting antisemitism 
The Hollywood actor is being honoured for his longtime advocacy 'against antisemitism and bigotry'
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Film icon Arnold Schwarzenegger will receive a special award for his work in opposing antisemitism.

The Hollywood actor will receive an "Award of Courage" from the Holocaust Museum in Los Angeles.

Schwarzenegger has been widely praised for speaking up about the issue.

In a video in March addressing a rise in antisemitic crimes in the US, Schwarzenegger said he sought not to preach to the choir, but speak to people who "heard some conspiracies about Jewish people or any race or gender and thought, 'That makes sense to me."'

He added: "There has never been a successful movement based on hate. Nazis? Losers. The Confederacy? Losers. The Apartheid movement? Losers - and the list goes on and on. I don't want you to be a loser. I don't want you to be weak."

The former Governor of California has cited his own personal experiences watching his late father and other men whose lives were in disarray in the wake of World War II.

Schwarzenegger was born in Austria to a father who joined the Nazi party during the war. He was left injured fighting in Leningrad.

Referencing his father, Schwarzenegger said: "I've talked a lot about my father, and the broken men that I was surrounded by when I grew up in Austria after World War II.

"Nobody who has chosen the easy path of hate has gotten to the end of that road and said 'oh, what a life.' No. They die as miserably as they lived."

In September last year, Schwarzenegger undertook a visit to Auschwitz concentration camp as part of his work with the Auschwitz Jewish Centre.

Schwarzenegger said: "When I walked through that camp in Auschwitz and I put myself in the shoes of those people herded into those gas chambers, it was horrifying.

"One of the darkest moments of my life. But in that darkness, a woman who survived the horrors of Auschwitz helped me find the light."

He is set to receive the award from the museum at its 15th annual gala on November 6 at the Beverly Hills Hotel, according to KTLA, an LA-based television station.

Holocaust Museum LA CEO Beth Kean said: "The first Award of Courage embodies all the lessons of the Holocaust, the spirit of educating and elevating humanity to fight hate in all forms.

"Arnold, by speaking out publicly, embodies our museum's essence of inspiring humanity through truth."