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The Auschwitz Memorial Twitter account called out Alex Berenson for an appalling comparison between vaccinations and the Holocaust.

  

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Via:  john-russell  •  3 years ago  •  6 comments

By:   Josh Feldman (Mediaite)

The Auschwitz Memorial Twitter account called out Alex Berenson for an appalling comparison between vaccinations and the Holocaust.
The Auschwitz Memorial Twitter account called out Alex Berenson for an appalling comparison between vaccinations and the Holocaust.

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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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JohnRussell
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1  seeder  JohnRussell    3 years ago

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. 

 
 
 
Paula Bartholomew
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1.1  Paula Bartholomew  replied to  JohnRussell @1    3 years ago

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.

 
 
 
Perrie Halpern R.A.
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2  Perrie Halpern R.A.    3 years ago

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.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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2.1  seeder  JohnRussell  replied to  Perrie Halpern R.A. @2    3 years ago
In May 2020, Fox News announced that Berenson would host a tv-show called "COVID Contrarian" on its online streaming platform Fox Nation. However, by July 2020, amid surges in coronavirus cases across parts of the United States, Fox News appeared to have backtracked and removed the announcement of his show from its website. [27]

In 2021, Berenson tweeted that COVID-19 vaccinations had led to 50 times more adverse effects than flu vaccine. PolitiFact rated the claim "mostly false." [6] The Atlantic called him "The pandemic's wrongest man," owing to his false claims of the vaccine's ineffectiveness. [4]

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He sounds like a crank. 

 
 
 
Kavika
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3  Kavika     3 years ago

Damn sad that he would post shit like that.

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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3.1  seeder  JohnRussell  replied to  Kavika @3    3 years ago

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

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