At Auschwitz, history's lessons are mangled by Polish Holocaust law

At the most potent symbol of Nazi terror, the caretakers of Auschwitz-Birkenau have a new job: defending history.

The museum at the former German death camp in southern Poland said it’s fighting off a rapidly escalating number of false claims. In a country where a nationalist agenda has come to dominate politics, some newspapers and reports on social media have suggested the guardians of the site ignore the wartime suffering of Poles.
 

There was an accusation that singing the Polish national anthem is banned. “The museum only requests that silence is maintained in the courtyard of Block 11, the place of