OSWIECIM, Poland (KSEE/KGPE) – The Auschwitz Memorial has described a social media post by Republican candidate for governor Kyle Langford as “a profound moral failure” after Langford posted a picture of himself superimposed on a picture of the Nazi concentration camp with the caption “my 0% unemployment plan.”
The original post by Kyle Langford was made on Friday, July 25. The response by the Auschwitz Memorial was made the next day, with the official account of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp writing that “the instrumentalization of the tragedy of all those imprisoned and murdered in the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz for political messaging is a profound moral failure. Auschwitz is not a prop.”
Your post is an affront to the dignity of the victims and a disturbing display of insensitivity and disregard to horryfying human history.
Auschwitz Memorial
In response to the pushback to his original post, Langford said that he “wasn’t joking” about the post and that “I think it is exactly what is needed to stabilize California and keep people safe.”
The memorial, which is now in Poland, marked the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in January by Soviet Red Army troops earlier this year. Some 6 million European Jews were killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust – the mass murder of Jews and other groups before and during World War II. An estimated 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, were killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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