The Auschwitz Memorial Twitter account called out Alex Berenson for an appalling comparison between vaccinations and the Holocaust.
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By Josh FeldmanAug 1st, 2021, 9:40 am Twitter share button <?php // Post Body ?>
The Auschwitz Memorial Twitter account called out Alex Berenson for an appalling comparison between vaccinations and the Holocaust.
Berenson, "the pandemic's wrongest man," tweeted on Friday, "Impfung macht frei."
Impfung macht frei
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) July 30, 2021
It's an unmistakable invocation of "arbeit macht frei" ("work makes you free"), the phrase that appeared at the entrances of Nazi concentration camps.
"Impfung" is German for "vaccination."
Auschwitz Memorial called out Berenson for the comparison and said, "It's painful to the memory of Auschwitz and its victims to see this symbol abused and violated. 'Arbeit macht frei' became one of the icons of human hatred. Using it in a debate about vaccines that save human lives is a sad symptom of moral and intelectual decline."
It's painful to the memory of Auschwitz and its victims to see this symbol abused and violated. "Arbeit macht frei" became one of the icons of human hatred. Using it in a debate about vaccines that save human lives is a sad symptom of moral and intelectual decline.
— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) August 1, 2021
Honoring and protecting the dignity and memory of people who suffered and were murdered in Auschwitz deserves every time we have.
— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) August 1, 2021
This is, unfortunately, not the first time they have had to call out such comparisons. They tweeted similar sentiments after Congresswoman Lauren Boebert tweeted about "Needle Nazis."
Instrumentalization of the tragedy of all people who between 1933-45 suffered, were humiliated, tortured & murdered by the hateful totalitarian regime of Nazi Germany to argue against vaccination that saves human lives is a sad symptom of moral and intellectual decline.
— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) July 10, 2021
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The Holocaust is getting farther and farther away in time and younger people dont have the same abject horror over it that the older generations do.
Time for another movie or miniseries about the Holocaust.
I have seen numerous specials about the Holocaust, but the most powerful one to me was the episode of the Twilight Zone where the ex guard revisited a camp to relive his sadistic memories and got served the ultimate karma.
You do know that the moron is actually Jewish... or as he put it: a not particularly observant Jew.
I guess his politics matter more than those that actually died in those camps.
He sounds like a crank.
Damn sad that he would post shit like that.
I actually think that someone who would use the words from the famous Auschwitz entrance sign to complain about covid restrictions is mentally disturbed.
Impfung macht frei
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) July 30, 2021