Lessons of Auschwitz Get Blurred in Poland
As the country implements a new Holocaust law, the former death camp’s museum is on the defensive.
The infamous inscription sits above the main gate at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
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At the most potent symbol of Nazi terror, the caretakers of Auschwitz-Birkenau have a new job: defending history.
The museum at the former German death camp in southern Poland said it's fighting off a rapidly escalating number of false claims. In a country where a nationalist agenda has come to dominate politics, some newspapers and reports on social media have suggested the guardians of the site ignore the wartime suffering of Poles.