German Camps

From the BBC:
"'Nazi German death camps' billboard to make 1,000-mile trip"

A billboard is being towed from Poland to the UK in protest at media reports referring to World War Two concentration camps as Polish, rather than the work of Nazi Germany.  The billboard will travel from the city of Wroclaw, through Germany and Belgium, before ending its 1,000-mile (1,600km) journey in Cambridge, Polish Radio reports. The 6m-long (19ft) sign features a pale grey photo of Auschwitz-Birkenau's infamous rail entrance, but with two stark black shapes superimposed on top - a depiction of Adolf Hitler's hair and moustache. It's emblazoned with the words: "Death camps were Nazi German - ZDF apologise!" In December, a Polish court ruled that German broadcaster ZDF must apologise to an Auschwitz survivor for referring to "Polish death camps" in promotional material for a documentary. There is an ongoing row over whether ZDF adequately complied with the ruling. The billboard is due to stop outside the broadcaster's headquarters in Mainz. The billboard is the work of a Polish NGO, the Foundation for the Traditions of Town and Country. "The idea of our campaign is simple," says member Dawid Hallmann. "We demand the historical truth, we oppose the use of the term 'Polish concentration camps', which is commonly used by Western media." Poland's government has long complained about language implying Polish responsibility for atrocities committed while the country was occupied by Nazi Germany. In recent years, some organisations have tried to tackle the problem with technology, from a tool that scours websites for phrases such as "Polish SS", to an app that acts like a spellchecker to suggest alternative descriptions.

^ It may not seem like a "big" deal to some on who planned, built and operated the concentration and death camps or who murdered the millions upon millions of innocent men, women and children during World War 2, but people around the world, around Europe and in Germany need to know the truth. The camps were "owned and operated" by the Germans. You can leave out the word "Nazi" if you like, but should always include the word "German" when referring to the camps. They were the policy of the German Government with countless aspects of every level of German society aiding in the operations of the forced labor and murder being done there (by those in the Nazi Party as well as "ordinary" Germans.) People should refer to these places as: "German-run concentration and death camps in Germany (or occupied Poland, occupied Soviet Union, etc.)" There were some camps (concentration or forced-labor) that were run entirely by collaborators in different parts of German-occupied Europe (France, Yugoslavia, etc.) but all of the death camps and major concentration camps were German-controlled. ^

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