The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum told RT on July 18 that it will report a Ukrainian neo-Nazi soldier to Polish prosecutors for disrespecting the victims of the infamous death camp.
Nikita Miroschenko shared photos and reels of himself and his girlfriend paying a visit to the death camp in Poland several weeks ago on his Instagram account. The footage is available on the linked website in RT.
“One of the reels showed the gates of Auschwitz with the infamous Nazi slogan ‘Arbeit macht frei’ with German military music playing in the background, while another showed him wearing a shirt emblazoned with the text ‘Where we are, there is no place for anyone else’—a phrase attributed to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler….
“Miroschenko is a member of the Ukrainian military’s 3rd Assault Brigade, which was formed in 2022 with the merger of two units of Azov Regiment veterans. The Azov Regiment originated as a neo-Nazi militia, and was formally integrated into the Ukrainian military in 2014. The 3rd Assault Brigade is commanded by the Azov Regiment’s original chief, a white supremacist named Andriy Biletsky.
“’Promoting content and symbols associated with Nazi ideology in this unique place violates the memory of the victims, which is an unacceptable and morally reprehensible act,’ Auschwitz Museum spokesman Bartosz Bartyzel told RT.
“‘It is also a crime under Polish law,’ he continued. ‘This remains valid regardless of whether the supposed quote from Hitler is unsigned or does not appear in generally recognized sources. Therefore, we will inform both the Polish prosecutor’s office and the Embassy of Ukraine in Warsaw about this painful incident related to hate speech.’”
The Museum website notes, “Historians estimate that around 1,1 million people perished in Auschwitz during the less than 5 years of its existence. The majority, around 1 million people, were Jews. The second most numerous group, some 70,000, was the Poles, and the third most numerous, about 21,000, the Roma and Sinti. About 15,000 Soviet POWs and some 12,000 prisoners of other ethnic backgrounds (including Czechs, Belorussians, Yugoslavians, French, Germans, and Austrians) also died there.”
