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Steve Kroft interviewed George Soros back in 1998; to my knowledge, the only way you can get copies of interviews from that far back is by inquiring directly to "60 Minutes." First, you may want to check online, because some segments were made available to the public and others are for sale on sites like Amazon.com. But if you are asking about a mythical interview where he supposedly admitted to helping the Nazis during World War II, Mr. Soros said no such thing. He told Steve Kroft that he was 14 at the time, and that his father had bribed a Hungarian governmental official to claim the young Soros was one of his Christian relatives. He once saw the Nazis confiscating Jewish property, but because he was pretending to be a Christian, he kept quiet in order to remain alive. A number of other Jewish people were saved from the Nazis by Christians who hid them and claimed they were Christian relatives, so this is not a particularly remarkable story.

But the accusation that Soros helped the Nazis did not come from any CBS interview; rather, it came from a 2010 commentary made by Glenn Beck which demonized George Soros using terminology that sometimes bordered on classic anti-Semitism: Beck claimed, for example, that Soros regularly participated in sending Jews to their death. It should be noted that Mr. Beck offered no proof for his accusations; most journalists and fact-checkers found the accusations baseless and inflammatory. I enclose a link to one of the critiques of what Beck said.

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