The Auschwitz Memorial said on Friday that Amazon was making a profit on “selling vicious antisemitic Nazi propaganda” by selling the books of Julius Streicher, a Nazi convicted of crimes against humanity.
The museum called on the global online shopping platform to remove Nazi-era anti-Semitic children’s books. “Hateful, virulently antisemitic Nazi propaganda is available for sale not only on @AmazonUK,” the Auschwitz Memorial tweeted, while urgeing Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to remove the controversial books.
Over the last year, Amazon has reportedly withdrawn several books by far-right authors including David Duke, a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, and George Lincoln Rockwell, the founder of the American Nazi Party.
Last year, Amazon triggered public outcry on 1 December by selling Christmas ornaments decorated with images of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.
Auschwitz was the largest Nazi extermination center. Over 1.1 million victims, including some 1 million Jewish prisoners, were killed in the camp during World War II. Around 232.000 of the victims were children.
Amazon slammed for selling anti-Semitic books
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A shopper holds a shopping receipt from the Amazon mobile app in Taipei, Taiwan, 05 September 2018. Amazon.com Inc. has become the second publicly traded US company to reach one trillion US dollars in market value. Last month Apple Inc. was the first company to be valued at 1 trillion US dollars.
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