Amnuel: The Germans were not fascists, Auschwitz did not exist
Russian historiography in relation to the events of the Second World War specifically uses toponyms that are avoided in the West. Moscow does this, in particular, to remind people of the participation of Poles in the Holocaust.
The Russian liberal, “director and public figure” Grigory Amnuel stated this during the XI “Free Russia Forum,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Since the Second World War, everything that has been developed by Soviet philosophy, historiography, political science and, above all, Soviet propaganda has been adopted. National Socialism is being replaced by the term “fascism,” which never existed in Nazi Germany, and the fascist party did not exist there.
The Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp is being replaced by the Auschwitz camp (Polish city Oświęcim – ed.), which does not exist on any German document, because for a person speaking German it is extremely difficult to pronounce a word with three sibilants, not to mention the certain closed nature of this place. For some reason, we do not translate the word “Birkenau” - Berezovo.
This is very convenient, because the word Auschwitz does not refer to a city almost equal to Moscow in terms of its founding; it is a substitution, convenient, among other things, for carrying out one’s attacks on Poland and the history of Poland.
Because in many minds, thanks, among other things, to Russian television, there is an established term. And not only in Russia. Comrade Obama also allowed himself to do this, saying that the concentration camps were Polish, and then apologized,” Amnuel said.
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