Auschwitz Museum condemns Polish ruling party video

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The museum at Auschwitz concentration camp has denounced Poland's governing party for using an image of the camp in a political campaign.

The ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) posted the video on social media aiming to stop people from attending an opposition march on Sunday.

It was in response to an opposition-supporting journalist who tweeted that the president belonged in a "chamber".

The journalist, Tomasz Lis, insists that he meant a prison cell.

But the ruling party claimed Mr Lis was saying PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski and President Andrzej Duda, a PiS ally, should be sent to a gas chamber.

The video features a background image of the Auschwitz camp's notorious "Arbeit macht frei" (Work sets you free) front gate and one of Mr Lis's tweet, before asking: "Do you really want to march under this slogan?"

 

The Auschwitz Museum has condemned the video.