PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte vowed to fight "insane leaders" like German Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler as he expressed hope that a tragedy like the Holocaust would not happen again.

In his brief remarks during a solemn visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem on Monday, Duterte said the murder of six million Jews in  Hitler’s Holocaust was an "insanity" and expressed hope that the world has learned from what he described as a "horrific and berighted period of human history."

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