“I had to do something that night,” Joel told CBS News. “The president said, ‘There’s some good people on... that did that...’ No, Nazis aren’t good people. It really enraged me, actually.”Joel recounted his own family history, which includes several family members murdered in concentration camps.“My old man, his family got wiped out,” Joel said. “They were slaughtered in Auschwitz. Him and his parents were able to get out. But then he was in the US Army during the war and fought with [Gen. George] Patton and was shot at by Nazis. But my family suffered. And I think I actually have a right to do that.”Joel was also asked about the decision in an interview with Vulture, which was published on Monday, and reiterated his stance.“There are no good Nazis,” he said. “There are no good Ku Klux Klan people. Don’t equivocate that shit... Those creeps are going to march through the streets of my country? Uh-uh. I was personally offended. That’s why I wore that yellow star. I had to do something, and I didn’t think speaking about it was going to be as impactful.”Billy Joel doing is encores at MSG on 8/21 wearing one Jewish Star on his breast and another on his back. He is a true hero. pic.twitter.com/M42f6P1f8J
— Eric Schultz (@EBS9291) August 22, 2017
Billy Joel: I 'have a right' to wear yellow star
In a recent interview, musician says his father's whole family was murdered in Auschwitz
