The Auschwitz Museum has called on online commerce billionaire Jeff Bezos to withdraw anti-Semitic Nazi-era children's books from its Amazon platform. "Nazi hate and virulent anti-Semitic propaganda is on sale not only on @AmazonUK," the Auschwitz memorial tweeted on Friday evening to its official account.
Hateful, virulently antisemitic Nazi propaganda is available for sale not only on @AmazonUK. Books by authors like Julius Streicher can be found also on @amazon & @AmazonDE.
Such books should be removed immediately. | @JeffBezos @AmazonHelp https://t.co/rxNWZj8iDs pic.twitter.com/viBjjZsYI5
"Books by authors like Julius Streicher can also be found at @ amazon & @ AmazonDE. These books should be deleted immediately. | @ JeffBezos @ AmazonHelp ”, can be read in the message which also reproduces screenshots of the books sold on the site.
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Among them, an anti-Semitic children's book entitled "The poisonous mushroom" written by the Nazi party member Julius Streicher, originally released in 1938. The book is available on Amazon in the original version in German (Der Giftpilz), but also in English , French and Spanish.
Last year, Lithuania called on Amazon to stop selling Soviet-referenced products online. The country claimed that the hammer and sickle symbol offended the victims of totalitarian communism.
75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau
In the past 18 months, Amazon has pulled several books from far-right authors, including David Duke, former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, and George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the Nazi Party, according to the New York Times . Holocaust survivors returned to the site of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in January to mark the 75th anniversary of his liberation and to warn of an upsurge in anti-Semitic attacks.
Nazi Germany created this death camp after occupying Poland at the start of World War II. Over a million Jews from all over Europe and 100,000,000 non-Jews were murdered.
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