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By Steve Scherer ROME (Reuters) - Silvio Berlusconi caused outrage in Italy's Jewish community on Wednesday after the former prime minister said he and his children felt persecuted like Jews in Nazi Germany because of hounding by leftist magistrates. They were later posted on Berlusconi's Forza Italia party website. Replying to a question about whether his five children had asked him to sell his media empire and leave Italy to escape his legal troubles, Berlusconi said: "My children say that they feel like Jewish families in Germany under Hitler's regime. Truly, everyone is against us." Nazi Germany murdered about six million Jews in the Holocaust before and during World War Two.More...