What specific platform and date did Candace Owens make her Holocaust comments?
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Executive summary
Candace Owens made the Holocaust-minimizing comments in a video published to her YouTube channel in early July 2024, when she questioned the veracity of Josef Mengele’s experiments and described aspects of the Holocaust as “bizarre propaganda,” a set of remarks widely reported in July 2024 [1] [2]. Multiple outlets tie the controversy to a specific YouTube/podcast appearance in early July 2024 but do not publish a single precise calendar date in the provided reporting [3] [4].
1. The platform: a YouTube video / her podcast feed
Reporting across major outlets identifies the comments as coming from a YouTube video or podcast episode Owens posted to her own channels, described variously as a YouTube video and as remarks on her podcast that were posted to YouTube; JNS and the Times of Israel explicitly locate the remarks on YouTube [2] [1], while Newsroom and other local reporting characterise the comments as coming from her podcast appearance as distributed on alternative platforms including YouTube [3] [5]. IMDb’s coverage likewise frames the remarks as part of a video segment in which Owens questioned conventional narratives about Hitler and the Holocaust [4].
2. The timing: early July 2024 — reporting clustered July 10–late July 2024
Multiple reports published in July 2024 place the remarks in "early July" or simply "July" of that year, with JNS reporting the comments on July 10, 2024 and other outlets following in the same month [2] [1]. The Times of Israel and Newsroom summaries also describe the relevant video as appearing in July 2024 and say she was “widely criticized” afterwards [1] [3]. None of the supplied sources furnishes an exact day-of-month tied to a timestamped upload; instead the journalism consistently dates the incident to early July 2024 and frames subsequent coverage and policy responses in August–October 2024 [1] [6].
3. What Owens said, per multiple outlets
Reports quote Owens as calling the experiments attributed to Nazi doctor Josef Mengele “bizarre propaganda” and suggesting elements of the Holocaust narrative were exaggerated — characterizations that outlets identify as Holocaust minimization or denial [2] [5]. Newsroom says she suggested that the human experimentation “just sounds like bizarre propaganda” and that she questioned whether the Holocaust “occurred” in the way documented by historians [3]. IMDb and opinion pieces summarize similar statements in her video questioning mainstream portrayals of Hitler and the Holocaust [4] [5].
4. Consequences and how governments referenced the remarks
Several governments and commentators cited the July 2024 video when taking action later in 2024: Australia’s immigration minister publicly cited Owens’ Holocaust comments when explaining a visa refusal in October 2024 [7] [6], and New Zealand’s refusal explicitly referenced the earlier YouTube remarks as a factor in denying entry [1]. News coverage links the early-July comments to the escalation in condemnation that led to visa denials and to calls from Jewish organizations for restrictions [1] [6].
5. Limits of the public record in the supplied reporting
The supplied sources consistently identify the platform (YouTube / her podcast feed) and month (July 2024) but do not provide a precise upload date or a transcript with an exact timestamp that would allow a single-day citation; the reporting cites the comments as occurring in early July 2024 and republishes excerpts and paraphrases [2] [1] [3]. Therefore the most specific claim supportable from these sources is that the comments were made in a YouTube-posted video or podcast episode in early July 2024; asserting an exact calendar date or second-by-second record would exceed what the provided reporting documents [4] [5].