Whoopi Goldberg doubles down on Holocaust rhetoric

Whoopi Goldberg doubled down on her comments that the Holocaust was not about race less than a year after she was suspended from "The View" for two weeks for similar comments.

"Even now she does not understand why her remarks offended. She insists Jewish people themselves are divided about whether they are a race or a religion," the U.K. Times reported Saturday.

Born Caryn Elaine Johnson, Goldberg claims to have taken her stage name from a distant Jewish ancestor, although researcher Henry Louis Gates Jr. found all of her ancestors were black and none were named Goldberg.

"My best friend said, 'Not for nothing is there no box on the census for the Jewish race. So that leads me to believe that we're probably not a race,'" Goldberg said during her interview with the U.K. Times.

The Nazis considered Jews to be a different race that needed to be eliminated, which ultimately led to the murder of more than 6 million European Jews during the Holocaust.

Goldberg asked why people should believe the Nazi's claims about Jews being a race.

"Yes, but that's the killer, isn't it?" she said. "The oppressor is telling you what you are. Why are you believing them? They're Nazis. Why believe what they're saying?"

Goldberg said the Holocaust "wasn't originally" about race, but physical traits.

She said the Nazis also measured the heads and noses of black people to "prove" they were a different race. "But it doesn't change the fact that you could not tell a Jew on a street. You could find me. You couldn't find them. That was the point I was making. But you would have thought that I'd taken a big old stinky dump on the table, butt naked," she said.