Justin Bieber faced withering criticism on Sunday after he visited the Anne Frank museum in Amsterdam and wrote that he hoped the Jewish girl who died in a Nazi death camp would have been a fan.
The museum said on its Facebook page that Canadian singer Bieber, 19, had visited the Anne Frank House, where she and her family hid from the Nazis, for more than an hour.
“Truly inspiring to be able to come here. Anne was a great girl. Hopefully she would have been a belieber,” Bieber wrote in the guestbook after the visit, the museum said.
Bieber’s remarks provoked furious responses on Facebook, with one poster calling Bieber’s guestbook entry “dumb and crass”.
“I can’t fathom how anyone, even a teenage celebrity, could leave Anne Frank’s house with less of an appreciation of history, the Holocaust and the unspeakable things humanity has done to so many innocents,” another commentator wrote.
“Save those comments for your Facebook, Justin. Not a guestbook that’s a part of history,” wrote another.
Bieber is currently touring Europe and played in the Dutch city of Arnhem on Saturday.
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