An anti-lockdown protester in Illinois has been widely condemned for brandishing a sign bearing a Nazi slogan from the gates of Auschwitz concentration camp.
The woman, who has not been identified, was part of a group protesting to "Re-Open Illinois' in Chicago on Friday.
The sign, reading "Arbeit macht frei, JB" appeared to be addressed to Illinois Governor JB Pritzker - who is Jewish.
The German words translate to "work will set you free", the phrase that was hung above the gates of Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland where more than 1m people died at the hands of the Nazis during the Holocaust.



An anti-lockdown protester in Illinois brandished a Nazi slogan on Friday (Twitter/Dennis_Kosuth)

The sign was widely condemned including by representatives of the Auschwitz Memorial, who tweeted: "'Arbeit macht frei' was a false, cynical illusion the SS gave to prisoners of #Auschwitz. Those words became one of the icons of human hatred. It's painful to see this symbol instrumentalized & used again to spread hate. It's a symptom of moral & intellectual degeneration."


The photograph of the sign was taken by nurse, Dennis Kosuth, on Friday afternoon, who was at the event as a counter-protester with other frontline medical workers who are battling the pandemic.
Kosuth, who lost a friend and colleague from the coronavirus this week, told The Independent that he was disgusted by the sign.



The gates of Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland where more than 1m people died during the Holocaust (AFP)

He said: "I don’t read German but I knew what that phrase meant and asked if she was a Nazi. She denied that she was and told me that she has Jewish friends, as if that was a legitimate argument."

Mr Kosuth said that anti-lockdown protesters confronted him and other nurses, accusing them of being actors and claiming that the Covid-19 death toll was inaccurate.
He added: "I’m glad this picture is out there because we must never forget history. I understand that people are suffering, losing their jobs, health insurance, struggling to pay bills and buy food. I am fortunate to still be working, and think those who cannot right now must be given more help then that have been."

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Charlie Chaplin
The Great Dictator - 1940 


DESABAFO DO CELSO SÁNCHEZ

A identificação nazista é a expressão nada ingênua de uma serpente que colocou seus ovos há muito tempo. Ovos chocados pelo calor da anestesia de uma sociedade viciada por muitas drogas, muito açúcar, futebol, muito churrasco com cerveja de milho transgênico, muito carboidrato e agrotóxicos, muita televisão, muito faustão, fantástico,  caldeirão, pegadinhas do malandro, vale tudo por dinheiro,  video cassetadas, muita banheira do gugu, e outros "grandes vultos nacionais" inchados de cocaína, refrigerante, bala.perdida, gente arrogantende verde e amarelo, gente entorpecida com filmes de terror, comedia romântica, tiroteio etc etc

Tudo isso fast food, fast image, fast reflection, fast shop, polishop, multishow, twitter, instagram na facebookializacao das nossas sociabilidades onde quanto mais amigos, menos amigos. Todas sorridentes vidas em simulacros. Daí, desse inferno vem o calor de movimentos patrióticos e nacionalistas que louvam   a América da história única.

Da frase em alusão à Auschvitz até a saudação nazista será um pulo, e nesse pulo haverá câmaras de gás, talvez na forma de helicópteros com snipers. 

Só na cabecinha irão caçar os negros, as bichas, as putas, os comunistas, os artistas,.professores e  depois você e eu já terei ido também.

No controle dos gatilhos  
Eugenistas que cresceram lendo Monteiro Lobato. 
Sonhando com suas narizinhos loiras de olhos azuis estilo Barbies fabricadas com silicone , botox e esterilizadas.em. álcool gel 70%

Estamos fudidos

Sao literalmente neo-nazis tropicais
Nós inventamos.uma espécie de "supremacia morena" ,.
uma.coisa bizarra ,
cristofascista, 
cheia de ódio.de classe, 
profundamente racista
Homofóbica
Cruel

Que odeia quem pensa diferente e.mata quem nao se submete
É hora de aprender a atirar outras coisas além.de palavras livros e ideias

Adianto:
Pedras nao serão suficientes