WASHINGTON (EJP)---Oscar-winning film-maker Oliver Stone has apologized for comments about the Holocaust and the Jews he made in an interview with the Sunday Times.

US Jewish groups condemned the remarks as "anti-Semitic."

In the interview, Stone said Hitler "was a Frankenstein but there was also a Dr Frankenstein. German industrialists, the Americans and the British. He had a lot of support.Hitler did far more damage to the Russians than to the Jewish people, 25 or 30 million killed."

Asked to explain why this was not well-known, he responded: "The Jewish domination of the media.There's a major lobby in the United States. They are hard workers. They stay on top of every comment, the most powerful lobby in Washington. Israel has fucked up United States foreign policy for years."

The comments drew criticism from various Jewish groups.

According to Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-defamation League (ADL), "Oliver Stone has once again shown his conspiratorial colours with his comments about 'Jewish domination of the media' and control over US foreign policy."

"His words conjure up some of the most stereotypical and conspiratorial notions of undue Jewish power and influence."

In a statement, Oliver Stone said: "In trying to make a broader historical point about the range of atrocities the Germans committed against many people, I made a clumsy association about the Holocaust, for which I am sorry and I regret.

"Jews obviously do not control media or any other industry," he said."The fact that the Holocaust is still a very important, vivid and current matter today is, in fact, a great credit to the very hard work of a broad coalition of people committed to the remembrance of this atrocity – and it was an atrocity."