You can find everything on Amazon, including the worst. The Auschwitz Museum has called on American online commerce billionaire Jeff Bezos to withdraw anti-Semitic Nazi-era children's books from its platform.
"Nazi hate and virulent anti-Semitic propaganda is on sale not only on @AmazonUK," the Auschwitz memorial tweeted Friday evening to its official account. “Books by authors like Julius Streicher can also be found on @amazon & @AmazonDE. These books should be deleted immediately. null @JeffBezos @AmazonHelp ”, can we read in the message which also reproduces screenshots of the books sold on the site.
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
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, saying the hammer and sickle symbol offended victims of totalitarian communism.
Christmas decorations like the Auschwitz camp removed last winter
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. Last December, Amazon had already removed Christmas decorations like the Auschwitz camp.
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.
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Nazi Germany created after having occupied Poland at the start of the Second World War this death camp, where more than a million Jews from all over Europe and 100,000 non-Jews were murdered.