No anti-Russian stickers in the Polish Auschwitz Museum

A recurring claim is that Russia wants to “denazify” Ukraine.
Some users on social media have taken it upon themselves to continually find new, alleged evidence to support the claim that Ukrainians are basically only made up of Nazis... and if no evidence can be found, it is simply falsified. This is apparently also the case with anti-Russian stickers that are said to have been stuck in the Polish Auschwitz Museum.

The stickers

The original source of the photos with the stickers is a pro-Russian account that has only existed since March 2022 and almost exclusively adds the hashtags “Ukraine” and “Nazis” to its own tweets.

This is what the stickers look like:

In English, the stickers read: “ Russia & Russians, the only gas you and your country deserve is Zyklon B. ” The tweet claims that Ukrainian activists placed the stickers on June 22.

Forensic analysis indicates image forgery

Since the original distributor of the photos is known, a successful forensic analysis could be carried out on them using several methods, as they have not yet been saved, possibly resized and re-uploaded dozens of times by other account holders.

Here are the results alone using the so-called “JPEG Ghosts” technique, in which images are examined to see whether parts of the image have a different compression than the rest of the image, which suggests that the colored part was added to the image later:

In all four photos you can clearly see that the stickers appear to have been added later. Other forensic methods also strongly suggest this.

Denial from the museum: No stickers were discovered, surveillance cameras showed nothing

The Polish Auschwitz Museum also became aware of the photos and stated on both Facebook and Twitter :

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No such incident was reported at the memorial.

No such stickers were found - not even in the places shown in the published photos. Some anonymous reports said the stickers allegedly appeared at the museum on June 22.

However, surveillance over the last few days has not shown that anything was glued in the places shown in the photos that are within range of the cameras. Everything indicates that the photos are simply a manipulation and that the incident should be seen as primitive and crude propaganda.

The use of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial for propaganda that lends credence to alleged Russophobia and reinforces theories about the need for denazification of Ukraine should be rejected by all thinking people worldwide.

Conclusion

The forensic analysis of the photos alone strongly suggests manipulation. This is further reinforced by the museum's statement that neither such stickers were found in the relevant places nor that the surveillance cameras showed anything.

There is also no reason why the museum spokespeople should lie, because if there was footage of one or more people putting up the stickers, it would certainly have been reported to law enforcement and there would be a manhunt.

We therefore classify the photos of the stickers as propaganda fakes.

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