Nearly all Jewish members of the U.S. Congress urged Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban Thursday to change his mind over the construction of a controversial monument that is to commemorate Hungary's occupation by Nazi Germany in 1944.

Critics of the monument claim that the monument, which is under construction, serves as an attempt for the Hungarian government to whitewash the active role Hungarian authorities and some Hungarians played in the Holocaust, pushing all the blame to Nazi Germany.

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