The Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, while critical of President Trump's failure, in his remarks following the 13 May "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville Virginia, to "make a distinction between Nazis and KKK protesters and those who opposed them”, described “the depiction of the president as a latter-day Hitler by a major German publication" as "untrue and beyond the pale". "Germans", they suggest, "must surely know that by misappropriating [...] Nazi symbols and terms associated with Adolf Hitler, they belittle and becloud the crimes of the past.” Jewish leaders in Germany similarly argued that the depiction of Trump as the new Hitler diminished ("verharmlost") Nazi genocide.