Sean Spicer is right: German Jews weren’t German citizens.

ean Spicer, spokesman for the Reich, stu­pe­fied the mass­es when he said: “I think when you come to sarin gas, [Hitler] was not using the gas on his own peo­ple the same way that Assad is doing.” You have to under­stand that Hitler was so much more the human­i­tar­i­an than Assad.

But this claim that Hitler nev­er gassed his own peo­ple? Think Progress says it is “false.” NBC News says it is false. Ever­where, peo­ple are say­ing it is false.

Actu­al­ly, Mr. Spicer is right: Ger­man Jews were not Ger­man cit­i­zens. It’s true: On Sep­tem­ber 15, 1935, the Nurem­berg Race Laws stripped Jews of Reich cit­i­zen­ship. And a “Jew” was defined as some­one who had at least three Jew­ish grand­par­ents, regard­less of whether he or she iden­ti­fied as Jew­ish.

So when Hitler used the sarin gas, he was not using it on Ger­man cit­i­zens. This is right. Mr. Spicer should be com­mend­ed for his truth­ful­ness. The White House does­n’t deal in fake news.

I don’t mean Mr. Spicer knew or did not know about the Nurem­berg laws that turned Jews some­thing dif­fer­ent than Hitler’s peo­ple. I only mean that he realized—as Hitler did—the that Jews are inher­ent­ly non-cit­i­zens and non-peo­ple. He under­stands this instinc­tive­ly, whether he knows any his­to­ry or not.

And think about what else Mr. Spicer is telling us. He is hold­ing up Hitler’s moral achieve­ment in not gassing his own cit­i­zens. Assad should have had the fore­sight of Hitler. He should have tak­en away the cit­i­zen­ship of those he want­ed to gas, before he gassed them. If he had done so, Mr. Spicer would not have been able to crit­i­cize him. Mr. Spicer would not need to say, “Assad? Hitler was bet­ter. Hitler did the right thing; he did­n’t gas his own peo­ple.”

See? The spokesman for the Reich knew what he was say­ing. The media should stop dis­miss­ing him as an igno­ra­mus. He knew what he was say­ing.