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76 years ago the Red Army managed to arrive and liberate Auschwitz, Poland, the biggest and most terrible concentration camp in Nazi . Because of this date, every year, January 27th is marked as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Today is one of the historic days that deserve a note or reminder in every corner of the internet, so that we never forget or let the fake news and false information that run free through the channels of the networks overlap the truth of one of the cruelest and saddest atrocities of all time. Human History: The Holocaust. 4x3257

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Gypsies, communists, Jews, homosexuals, Poles, people with disabilities, Jehovah's Witnesses and other minorities. These were the victims of the genocide provoked by the Nazis in from 1933-1945, which is known as the holocaust.

For 12 years, more than 10 million people were killed, in addition to cases in which people were subjected to the most bizarre and disgusting “scientific” experiments, being considered the third largest genocide of humanity, but certainly the most impactful.

The entrance to the Auschwitz Birkenau concentration camp. Photo: Shutterstock

Only in the field of AuschwitzIn Poland, more than a million people – mostly Jews – were killed in various gruesome ways. It is stipulated that around 1944, 6 people were killed a day in this camp through the gas chamber.

When prisoners arrived at the camps, it was determined by triage by Nazi scientists whether they would be arrested or straight to death. Prisoners were destined to work as slaves and be victims of macabre research that had never been tested by humanity.

The records show that each week a new screening was carried out among the prisoners to choose who would die or continue living as a slave.

Even today there are some people who survived this atrocity who dedicate their lives to narrating and telling the world in a real way everything that happened, in addition to that there is no lack of records and reliable sources that confirm and prove everything that happened.

Leon Weintraub, survivor of one of the concentration camps – Image: David Keyton/via DW

Even so, the internet has given strength to unscrupulous theories and conspiracy ideas that even deny the veracity of the holocaust or even relativize the facts, which must be repudiated and unacceptable, in both cases.

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In 1933 voluntarily surrendered to an extremely fundamentalist philosophy that was born out of pure political hatred against minorities and different people.

Young people demonstrating in Nazi : – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Nazism was founded by Adolf Hitler, a politician who preached the purification of through the selection of the Aryan race - which according to him was the most superior human race - and the massacre of those who were different from or opposed to this philosophy.

From afar it may seem crazy that such a regime would have achieved power without extreme imposition and brute force, but the truth is that this purist and authoritarian discourse found fertile ground in at that time. 

Hitler began his political life with the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (German Labor Party); and in 1920 changed the name to National sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers' Party, or Nazi Party).

From 1925 to 1930 the German government changed from a democratic regime to a conservative-nationalist regime. From 1929, for various reasons such as high inflation and a serious economic crisis, the Nazis began to find increasingly radical among the population. If in the elections of 1922-1923 the Nazis won 12 seats in the German parliament, in 1930 they won 107 seats.

It was a matter of time before the Nazis occupied the entire German government apparatus, pursued political opponents and Hitler consecrated himself as the dictator of the Reich.

In 1933, the concentration camp was created. Dachau, being the first official and intended for political prisoners. During the first years the prisoners were German communists, social democrats, trade unionists and political opponents. Over time, it also became the destination of Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals and gypsies.

“Work sets you free”, reads the cynical inscription at the entrance to Dachau – Image:  picture-alliance/dpa/T. Hase

The basis of Nazi philosophy was to advocate a pure for Germans. They had in mind the extermination of those who thought differently or offered any risk to the ideal of the perfect Aryan race.

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Nazism was unfortunately not limited to , but spread across Europe and the world. If it is frightening to imagine that the Germans surrendered to such a bloodthirsty philosophy, it is even stranger when we think that Nazism gained many followers in the United States and even in Brazil.

Not only that, but several companies like BMW and Volkswagen ed Nazi and even used labor from concentration camps. Another little-known example was Hugo Boss, who designed several models of Nazi militia uniforms.

Nazi uniforms were designed by Hugo Boss – Credits: unknown author / German Federal Archive, ID.: 183-H15390.

Hence the extreme importance of ing that date. Hitler and his philosophy did not need to invade half the world to receive the he received, everything was publicized and worked with a heavy propaganda that convinced Nations, families and companies to and profit from the massacre of millions of people.

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Even today, with so much information and evidence from the most varied sources, including reports from survivors who went through the atrocities and today openly narrate, there are still people who dare the absurd: deny the holocaust.

Those who deny the Holocaust do not accept being called denialists, and use the term “revisionists” among themselves, because according to them they are revising what actually happened.

But the truth is that this absurdity should not even be pondered or questioned by serious institutions, mainly because when investigated in depth, holocaust denial almost always has a common source: anti-Semitism.

Kanye West has more than once given appalling statements favorable to Nazism and Hitler. Image: Reproduction

A sad and recent example of a statement praising the figure of Hitler and questioning the veracity of Nazi atrocities was that of singer Kanye West.

These people ignore the truth and deny, or relativize that millions of people were killed, enslaved and used for testing in concentration camps, and thereby relativize the weight of Nazism and its authoritarian ideas.

In itself, for example, it is a crime to deny or relativize the Holocaust, so that even today the Germans treat the situation with rigor and refuse to forget it, so that it never happens again.

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Currently, it is customary to post photos or messages on the subject on the internet using the hashtag #Werebember and tag #WJC (World Jewish Congress) and #CJL (Conselho Judaico Latinoamericano) on social networks.

It is the job of society as a whole to organize itself and keep its eyes open, since in the times we live in, disinformation has reached levels never imagined thanks to the internet, even giving an opening for Nazis, anti-Semites and denialists to communicate and organize themselves through forums and others. virtual means of communication.

Hebrew Hanukkah photographed in a house while the Nazi flag is flying outside. – via Alamy Stock Photo

We will never forget what was done, and we hope it never happens again.

SOURCES: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Coffee History, UFRB,

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