Naked artist video filmed in Nazi gas chamber causes widespread outrage
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Holocaust groups are calling for answers after a video showing a naked game of tag for a concentration camp exhibition was revealed to be filmed inside a Stutthof gas chamber.
The artist video filmed in 1999 was entitled The Game of Tag and featured at a Krakow exhibition in 2015.
The location of where the film was shot was never revealed until experts compared footage from the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s recent visit to Stutthof and the gas chamber where the video was filmed.
Since the development the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which investigates Nazi war criminals, and the Center of Organisation of Holocaust Survivors in Israel have written to the President of Poland to find out if the photographer had permission to use the gas chamber.
Wiesenthal Center’s chief Efraim Zuroff told the BBC that the Polish President Andrzej Duda needed to ensure videos like this don’t occur again.
Britain’s Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (R) and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (L) meet with former prisoners of the camp Manfred Goldberg.
“It’s really outrageous. I hope the Polish president will put in place regulations to make sure stuff like this doesn’t happen again,” he told the BBC.
“It was banned in Germany, Estonia took in down when we contacted them. In Poland for some reason, which lost six million people – three million Jews and three million Poles – they didn’t get it,” he added.
The video is still published on the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw and the caption reads: “This work is full of cruel fun, sadism, nudity and childish carelessness at the same time”.
“It is full of innocence, laughter, juvenile amusement.”
The Stutthof camp was located 34km northeast of Danzig in Poland and was the first camp on Polish soil.
More than 60,000 people died in the camp between 1939 and 1945.
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