Fury over sick video showing naked people playing tag inside Nazi death camp GAS CHAMBER
The video was filmed at the notorious Stutthof death camp where around 65,000 were killed
Furious Jewish advocacy groups are demanding to know why a video of naked people playing tag in Nazi death camp in Poland was allowed to be filmed there.
The video, created by artist Artur Żmijewski, first sparked outraged in 2015 when it was shown as part of an art exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow.
It shows naked men and women jovially chasing each other around a tiny, bleak, concrete chamber.
Research has now revealed it was shot at the once-brutal Stutthof death camp, near Gdansk, where the Nazis murdered as many as 65,000 prisoners during the Second World War.
There is also evidence to show that the maniacal Dr Rudolf Spanner used human fat from corpses in Stutthof to make soap.
The Organization of Holocaust Survivors in Israel, the Simon Wiesenthal Center and other Jewish groups now want to know how Żmijewski got permission to film at place where so many suffered.
In a joint letter to President Andrzej Duda, they asked whether the artist obtained "permission from the Stutthof administrators to make this video, what rules exist for proper conduct at the site, how these are enforced".
The Simon Wiesenthal Center also demanded to know whether an investigation into the filming had been carried out.
The video was first used as part of a 2015 exhibit titled “Poland – Israel – Germany. The experience of Auschwitz".
In a garbled explanation, Poland's claimed it was inspired by "a part of history that is treated as 'untouchable' and about overly painful memories".
It adds: "Berek is about how we can engage with this brutal history and work with imposed memory.
'It’s possible to have active access to history, and to attempt to emancipate ourselves from the trauma."
Protests from Jewish groups forced the Museum of Contemporary Art to pull the exhibit but they later reinstated it using the defence of freedom of artistic expression, the reported at the time.
“It is the most disgusting thing I’ve seen in a long time,” said Efraim Zuroff of the Wiesenthal Center in 2015.
He added: “They lied about it. It is just revolting and a total insult to the victims and anyone with any sense of morality or integrity.”
Stutthof was the first camp set up outside German borders, in September 1939, and one of the last camps liberated by the Allies, in May 1945.
Around 110,000 people – men, women and children – from 28 countries were imprisoned there.
The Nazis forced them to work in its armaments factory, as well as in local brickyards and farms.
But several thousands of the 100,000 prisoners to be imprisoned there were killed by typhus epidemics which swept through the camp in 1942 and 1944.
The inmates who were judged too weak to work were gassed to death by evil SS guards or given lethal injections by the camp's doctors.
The Nazis are also believed to have made soap using the human corpses they obtained from Stutthof.