This trend is all over TikTok, threads and Instagram: people constantly “reminding“ others, that Auschwitz is in Poland. What does it mean?



by vit-kievit

26 comments

  2. Germans trying to whitewash their history on account of poles, nothing new

  3. It is a friendly reminder that Tiktokers should be sent to the lythium mines.

  4. Neo fascism is on the rise. ~~Dog whistles. And blame shifting. “Polish death camps” were a term coined and pushed by the neo-nazis from Germany to shift the blame.~~

    ~~This trend is just american nazis led by Trump, Vance and Musk trying to normalise evil and shift the blame just like they are shifting the blame for Ukrainian war from Russia to Ukraine.`~~

    Edit: See below.

  5. I can’t help but feel Poland is a content farm for a lot of influencers. It’s kind of unsettling.

  7. Uh, what a bunch of idiots. He doesn’t understand anything he says.

  8. They are trying to say that Trump is no different from Hitler, and the fact that there are still no concentration camps in the USA (only in El Salvador) doesn’t matter, since the Nazi “outsourced” their crimes as well.

    And I get what they’re saying, but it’s a pretty stupid comparison, which implies that El Salvador (an authoritarian dictatorship that built its own concentration camp) is no different from 1939-45 Poland (an occupied country, where the Germans built the camps)

  9. It is a reference to USA sending people to prison abroad without due trial or any kind of representation

  10. He’s telling the Americans that when a fascists wants to do horrible things they ship it to another country where their laws don’t apply. They never do the horrible acts in their home country first. This is drawing the parallel between 1939 and modern trump shipping people to a concentration camp in El Salvador. Not an insult toward Poland but a call for Americans to get their shit together

  12. Yeah, this means that them Germans have made Poland into a deadly playground for themselves

  13. Weird, Lebensraum is a German sounding name. Wonder why that is… /j

    Information warfare, nothing new

  14. I think, it has nothing to do with Germany, Poland and understanding of who was the perpetrator of atrocities in WW2. This is an analogy for sending people (like Kilmar Abrego Garcia) from US to camps/prison outside of US – i.e. to Salvador, without trial. Germany have their camps outside of Germany, similarly like US is sending alleged criminals to camps outside of US. This the reminder that such things happened in the past, to wake up Americans for deterioration of the rule of law in US and sliding US into a dictatorship and that the US government is becoming more and more fascist.

    Check this article by Timothy Snyder about similarities:
    [https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/state-terror?r=1rayzc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false](https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/state-terror?r=1rayzc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false)

  15. Do Polaków: tu nie chodzi o “Polskie obozy” to porównanie do tego co Trump robi w Salwadorze. Brakuje wam kontekstu a już bijecie pianę.

  17. It means Germans built the camp on occupied Polish land, which was annexed at the time. Looking for any parallels to today is just stupid. Somebody is either try to pump some today narrative out of proportion, which is just making it ridiculous and easy to refute, or – even worse – try to diminish the scope of the Holocaust. Go back to your history class and stop seeing “history repeating itself” everywhere.

  18. We’re already deporting criminals who came from abroad, why not take some notes from asia and how they deal with tiktokers disrespecting their country?

  21. You guys are misunderstanding. This in reality isn’t supposed to have anything to do with “polish death camps.”

    It’s an anti- Trump message, referring to Trump sending Venezuelan migrants to an El Salvador prison to spend the rest of their lives in hellish conditions – it’s essentially a death camp. They didn’t get a trial either btw, just assumed they were all gang members.

    The message is that trump wants this to be an American death camp — in El Salvador. Like Auschwitz was a German death camp in Poland

  22. It’s a shitty comparison, Poland didn’t cooperate with Germany, Poland didn’t have anything to gain from the arrangement because Poland had nothing to say in the matter.

  23. Oh shut up, It’s not a fucking trend. It’s one guy, Walter Masterson whom I sometimes watch on youtube. He’s kind of political comedian, heavily left leaning. Very reasonable and smart guy, with distinc voice and facial features. I don’t use tiktok but that made me wonder, if that was AI, or what’s the story here?

    And guess what, it’s one in, I don’t know the tiktok nomenclature, series?? of tiktoks where he attacks US government for sending his prisoners to El Salvador. He draws comparison between US and Nazi Germany and El Salvador prison to Auschwitz.

    Exactly what’s in this video – he reminds US citizens that Germans used to send their prisoners to camps abroad (including Poland) as well.

    So yeah, context matters, don’t be stupid. Political bots like u/vit-kievit are everywhere, do your own thinking.

    Here are Walter’s tiktok and youtube if you want to check for yourself:

    [https://www.tiktok.com/@waltermasterson](https://www.tiktok.com/@waltermasterson)

    [https://www.youtube.com/@waltermasterson](https://www.youtube.com/@waltermasterson)

  24. Its a pretty simple point to make albeit a perfect analogy and historically not accurate if you know context. Germany had several camos within Germany.

    That said repressive authoritarian regime has concentration camps or sends its victims far from the spotlight. Its a simple analogy.

  25. I think it stems from saying that there were only german camps not polish camps as in the poles didn’t own them. (i actually know a few people that asked me this as a “tricky” question so maybe it’s supposed to be that one??

  26. This is just a reminder: Poland was once a part of Germany and not independent. If you understand what this means, you are smarter than this guy

    Edit: after reading the comments, wtf is this reference. Its stupid as fuck. Anyway, I hope you all have a great day

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