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| Greek MP angers Jewish group by posting altered Auschwitz photo | Greek MP angers Jewish group by posting altered Auschwitz photo |
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| A Greek politician prompted outrage after he posted an image online of the entrance to the Auschwitz concentration camp with its infamous sign altered to read "We're staying in Europe". | A Greek politician prompted outrage after he posted an image online of the entrance to the Auschwitz concentration camp with its infamous sign altered to read "We're staying in Europe". |
| Dimitris Kammenos posted the image on his Facebook page. | Dimitris Kammenos posted the image on his Facebook page. |
| The sign above the Nazi concentration camp entrance reads, in reality, "Arbeit macht frei". The slogan "We're staying in Europe" was used at recent pro-euro rallies in Athens. | The sign above the Nazi concentration camp entrance reads, in reality, "Arbeit macht frei". The slogan "We're staying in Europe" was used at recent pro-euro rallies in Athens. |
| Kammenos is an MP with the Independent Greeks party, a coalition partner in the Greek government. He is no relation of the party's founder and president, Panos Kammenos. | |
| The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece called the photograph "shameful" and a "malevolent trivialisation" of the Holocaust. | The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece called the photograph "shameful" and a "malevolent trivialisation" of the Holocaust. |
| Marina Chrysoveloni, an Independent Greeks spokeswoman, said Kammenos's move had been an "utterly personal action" and had nothing to do with the party. | Marina Chrysoveloni, an Independent Greeks spokeswoman, said Kammenos's move had been an "utterly personal action" and had nothing to do with the party. |
| Kammenos apologised for posting the photograph and the image was not publiclally available on his Facebook page on Thursday, but he appeared not entirely to back down. | Kammenos apologised for posting the photograph and the image was not publiclally available on his Facebook page on Thursday, but he appeared not entirely to back down. |
| "Maybe the comparison was unfortunate but my country is experiencing an economic holocaust," he wrote on Facebook, according to ekathimerini.com, which is linked to the New York Times. | "Maybe the comparison was unfortunate but my country is experiencing an economic holocaust," he wrote on Facebook, according to ekathimerini.com, which is linked to the New York Times. |