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Elon Musk visits the former Auschwitz concentration camp
Elon Musk (r.) visiting the German Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland
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Entrepreneur Elon Musk is currently visiting Auschwitz, Poland. He is responding to an invitation after he recently came under fire for a post that was seen as anti-Semitic.
The US businessman Elon Musk visited the memorial site of the former German concentration camp Auschwitz. Photos showed him on Monday on the grounds of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in then-occupied Poland.
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Wanted in the afternoon Musk in Krakow at a conference organized by the European Jewish Association (EJA) to discuss online anti-Semitism. His visit to Auschwitz was originally only planned for Tuesday.
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As the owner of Twitter’s successor, He later spoke of a misunderstanding and apologized.
Hate speech researchers also accused X of not taking sufficient action against anti-Semitic posts. Major advertisers such as Apple and Disney then stopped advertising on the service.
The name Auschwitz is burned into the consciousness of the world as a synonym for the Holocaust and the epitome of evil. There alone the National Socialists killed more than a million people, mostly Jews. Across Europe they murdered around six million Jews during the Shoah.