Fact check: Were Ukrainian refugees invited to stay at former Nazi camp?

Claims have unfold on-line that Ukrainian refugees had been invited to remain at a former Nazi focus camp in Germany.

Social media customers alleged that folks fleeing the Ukraine struggle could possibly be housed at a short lived lodge on the Sachsenhausen Memorial close to Berlin.

The claims had been extensively unfold by pro-Kremlin Telegram channels, in addition to by some Twitter customers in German, Italian, and Polish.

The Sachsenhausen Memorial - as soon as one of many greatest focus camps in Germany - has denied the rumours as "faux". 

Euronews has fact-checked these claims, discovering them false. 

One photograph circulating on-line claims that the barracks on the former focus camp have been adorned with banners in Ukrainian colors studying "Welcome Dwelling" in German. 

Utilizing open-source fact-checking instruments to confirm photographs, Euronews discovered that the photograph had been digitally altered and that the alleged "welcome" banners had been artificially added.

The unique photograph of the Sachsenhausen Memorial barracks was first revealed on a German tourism web site in 2019.

Open-source picture verification instruments point out that the photograph has been alteredEuronews through Invid

There is no such thing as a archived file that the Sachsenhausen Memorial had invited Ukrainian refugees to remain on the grounds of the previous focus camp.

In a assertion on social media, the memorial's administration firmly denied the allegations and says it would "take authorized motion in opposition to this faux".

"We condemn the rising use of faux information with references to Nazi historical past to hold out crude propaganda," the assertion added. "We counter this with science-based historical past training."

It's unclear who's behind the misinformation and digitally altered picture.

In keeping with the United Nations, greater than 5 million refugees have now left Ukraine because the struggle broke out on 24 February, whereas seven million are nonetheless considered inside Ukraine itself. 

This isn't the primary time that there have been makes an attempt to discredit Ukrainian refugees in Europe. 

Final month, a viral video falsely claimed that Ukrainian refugees set hearth to a home in Germany whereas making an attempt to burn a Russian flag.