The annual carnival procession in Spain's Campo de Criptana is receiving backlash from the Jewish community after video and photos of the parade showed participants marching down the streets with crematoria chimneys while donning Nazi attire and skimpy concentration camp uniforms.
Heavy references to the Holocaust were featured in Campo de Criptana's carnival on Monday, as men and women dressed as gun-slinging Nazi soldiers and concentration camp prisoners bearing Israeli flags marched through the streets of the village in central Spain.
The Holocaust-themed display, which included female concentration camp prisoners in revealing outfits, did not go over well with members of the Jewish community and immediately drew ire from the Israeli embassy in Madrid.
“We condemn the vile and disgusting representation banalizing the Holocaust at the Carnival of Campo de Criptana, making fun of the six million Jews killed by the Nazis,” the embassy said in a Tuesday tweet, adding that “European countries must actively combat” anti-Semitism.
The display was apparently supposed to be a commemoration of the “6 million Jewish men, women and children who perished in the Holocaust and all those who suffered persecution and extermination because of their race, sexual orientation, religion, ethnic origin or political ideas,” according to the Guardian.
However, in a Tuesday social media post, the Auschwitz Memorial blasted the Holocaust…
