Auschwitz museum target of Russian propaganda on social media

A view of the gate of the Auschwitz Nazi death camp in Poland in 2020 [File: Markus Schreiber/AP]

The Auschwitz-Birkenau museum has alleged that it was the target of “primitive” propaganda spread by Russian state agencies on social media.

The museum said on Friday that social media posts had falsely claimed to show anti-Russian stickers placed around the former site of the Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland, an area under German occupation during World War II.