Auschwitz Swimming Pool

"I'm sorry, but I just can't understand your business plan. You're marketing it as a 'death camp' but you're showing me blueprints with a swimming pool and a maternity ward. And an orchestra? It seems you need to figure out where to focus your efforts. And for that reason, Im [sic] out [sic]". Below is a still image of Kevin O'Leary from the television show Dragon's Den.

Memes referencing the so-called Auschwitz swimming pool promote Holocaust denialism by implying or stating that the presence of a swimming pool in the camps proves that their objective was not to exterminate Jews and that Jewish prisoners were treated well. There indeed was a swimming pool in the Auschwitz camps, which doubled as a water tank in case of fire. However, its use was limited to German officers, as well as some non-Jewish inmates.

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