Auschwitz museum target of Russian propaganda on social media

Social media posts falsely claimed to point out anti-Russian stickers positioned round former Auschwitz demise camp in Poland.

A view of the gate of the Auschwitz Nazi demise camp in Poland in 2020 [File: Markus Schreiber/AP]

The Auschwitz-Birkenau museum has alleged that it was the goal of “primitive” propaganda unfold by Russian state businesses on social media.

The museum stated on Friday that social media posts had falsely claimed to point out anti-Russian stickers positioned across the former web site of the Auschwitz demise camp in southern Poland, an space beneath German occupation throughout World Warfare II.

The false photographs have been tweeted by official Russian websites, together with the Russian Arms Management Delegation in Vienna and retweeted by the Russian Ministry of Overseas Affairs.

The highlighting of the false photographs appeared meant to painting Russians as targets of vicious Russophobia, the museum stated in an announcement.

Some posts claimed the stickers have been the work of Ukrainians.

“Using the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial for propaganda that lends credence to alleged Russophobia and strengthens theories in regards to the want for denazification of Ukraine must be opposed by all pondering individuals worldwide,” the museum stated.

"They misinform your eyes" says @armscontrol_rus.

The @InVID_EU evaluation of the images allegedly taken at @AuschwitzMuseum clearly reveals that the photographs have been manipulated for use in primitive and gross propaganda.

Extra particulars & our assertion under. https://t.co/1flObVAfNKpic.twitter.com/YT1CrLX7Ah

— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) June 24, 2022

 

“Russia and Russians”, the stickers showing in pretend photographs say, “the one fuel you and your nation deserve is Zykon B”, – a reference to the fuel the Germans used within the mass homicide of Jews and others on the camps in the course of the warfare.

A number of on-line posts claimed the anti-Russian stickers went up on June 22, which is the anniversary of Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. The Soviet Union’s military liberated Auschwitz in 1945.

The Auschwitz Museum stated no such stickers have been discovered on the locations depicted within the photographs shared on social media, and that safety cameras didn't seize anybody affixing something to the places on or earlier than June 22.

The museum stated an evaluation confirmed the pictures have been manipulated and the stickers added digitally.

“All the things signifies that the images are merely a manipulation,” the museum stated in an announcement, describing the photographs as “primitive and gross propaganda”.

When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, President Vladimir Putin stated the objective was to “denazify” Ukraine, whose democratically elected president is Jewish and misplaced relations within the Holocaust.

Greater than 1.1 million individuals, most of them Jews, have been murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators at Auschwitz.