I’m sure that nearly all my regular reader know there was a swimming pool in Auschwitz. You may even be familiar with the photograph below:
This photo is from the swimming pool in Nováky, which was a Slovak labor camp. Sometimes it is miscaptioned as a swimming pool in Auschwitz. Sometimes these miscaptioned memes go viral enough to be noticed by major news outlets:
I read this article so you don’t have to, but you can find it here if you want. The Reuters “Fact Checkers” fail to mention that there was, in fact, a swimming pool at Auschwitz. A miscaptioned photo does not take away from that very real fact.
Instead of being unbiased and presenting all relevant information, Reuters employs sneaky and dishonest tactics. They don’t lie outright, but they are far from honest. Take the following passage, for example:
Some social media user comments suggest the picture is evidence that Jews generally lived in comfort during the Shoah, or genocide.
One Twitter user said: “Whilst our armies were dying on the beaches to save them…. They had swimming pools, football pitches, orchestras, day cares and libraries.. and they’re still receiving compensation and pensions, but our fallen got nothing” (here).
There’s a bit to unpack here. Let’s start with the picture of the pool from the Slovak labor camp as evidence that Jews generally lived in comfort during the alleged Holocaust. It’s true, one picture cannot fully depict the conditions of the Jews in German occupied territories. That said, why then do Reuters and Holocaust fabulists go to such great lengths to hide the existence of the pool and other amenities in Auschwitz? And yes, all the things the Twitter user mentioned were present in Auschwitz. What do you call it when you only present one side of the story to fit with your narrative again?
Terezin, aka Theresienstadt, was a concentration camp 30 miles north of Prague in the Czech Republic (Czechoslovakia). The leading search result for Terezin uses the following picture to depict it:
What are the odds that there was bedding that was removed before this picture was taken?
Pretty good, I’d say:
If you dig a little deeper you can see a side of Terezin that isn’t readily shown by Holocaust Fabulists:
What this all goes to show is that manipulation and omission, and even outright lies, are needed to sell people on the official Holocaust narrative. If Holocaust fabulists were required to show all the facts then nobody would believe it- unless they wanted to believe.