DISINFO: Auschwitz was modeled on Polish example
DISINFORMATION CASE DETAILS
  • Outlet: ren.tv (archived)* news-front.info (archived)*
  • Date of publication: January 27, 2020
  • Outlet language(s): Russian
  • Reported in: Issue 181
  • Countries / regions discussed: Poland, Russia
Tags:
Holocaust Historical revisionism

DISINFO: Auschwitz was modeled on Polish example

SUMMARY

Arpad Wigand used the Polish example for designing the Auschwitz concentration camps

RESPONSE

This message is part of the Kremlin’s policy of historical revisionism and a part of an organised campaign to defame Poland. No sources support Auschwitz was modeled after Polish PoW camps, set up after the Soviet - Polish war of 1919 - 1920. Read other examples of the Russian historical revisionism concerning Poland - Poland posed a military threat to the USSR in 1938-1939, Nazi Germany considered Poland its best ally, If Poland realized a rational policy in 1939, Moscow would have had a different approach towards it and Poland re-writes the history of the Warsaw uprising accusing the USSR of its failure.

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