The news spread over the network that the administration of the Museum of the former concentration camp of Zasenhausen in Germany proposed to settle Ukrainian refugees on the territory of the memorial. We checked whether these messages are true.

The first about the announcement of Zasenhausen reported Telegram channel "Tribunal". The invitation allegedly appeared on the social networks of the museum complex. The Channel called banners on the huts of the former concentration camp, welcoming future Ukrainian tenants with the words “Welcome home”. According to the channel, the museum post caused outrage not only Ukrainians, but also Germans. As a result, the administration removed the post a few hours later. The Tribunal demonstrated Screenshots He added remote posts: "We urge you to evaluate the entire degree of madness and think about how they actually relate to Ukrainians in Western countries."

This news quickly spread to Telegram-channels, social networks And Media. For example, the Channel "War with Fakes" wrote: "The ambiguity of the Germans gives the inscription:" Welcome home "on the walls of the barracks, which used to contain prisoners of concentration camps, including Ukrainians." In the comments to the post, some users expressed surprise, and some wrote that "there is a road there."

The screenshots of the TELEGRAM channel "Tribunal" depict remote posts from the official pages of the Zasenhausen Museum in Instagram And Facebook. To demonstrate the degree of indignation of users, the "Tribunal" also attached screenshots of comments from Ukrainians (to post on Instagram) and Germans (to post on Facebook).

First of all, we checked whether there are users with such names in both social networks. There were no Instagram network with Tima_oxs, Lifeofnii and Srcompere nicknames. User Allamikolaivna Still, he was found, but he has another photograph of the profile and he was not signed on the Skenhausen Museum page. There is only one photo posted in July 2018 in the account. It is unlikely that after four years of lack of activity, the account owner suddenly entered the page of the Sachsenhausen Museum to comment on the post.

The same situation with German users who allegedly commented on the museum post on Facebook. Users with Hanna Ritter or Erich Steinmann names are several dozen, but the profile photographs do not correspond to the fact that in the screenshot. Users with the Holger Beltz and Frau Eveline names in the social network are not registered at all. It is also strange that the age of the publication - “1 day” - is written in Russian, and the Mehr Anzeigen button (“show more”) to expand the full text in German. The interface language is determined in the user settings and cannot show information in different languages in the same application.

We conducted a digital analysis of the screenshot from Instagram, which confirmed that the picture was arranged from several images. For example, an analysis of error levels (ELA, Error Level Analysis) showed that the level of compression of the pixels of the “Subscribe” button and banners on barracks differs from the general level of compression. This suggests that these elements were added to the image in a digital way.

We managed to find the original picturewho used the creator of the photo collage. There are no welcome banners on the former huts of Zasenhausen.

We also called the museum and asked to comment on the news about the placement of Ukrainian refugees. They answered us that we had not heard anything about it and, if there is no such information on site Museum, she should not believe. According to them, there are no suitable people on the territory of the complex and premises to accommodate people. Apparently, the former barracks of prisoners did not even occur to them.

So, the screenshots laid out, like the picture of the barracks with banners, are fake images created using a graphic editor. Most likely, the fake was created by the authors of the Tribunal Telegram channel to force the audience to "evaluate the entire degree of insanity and think about how they actually relate to Ukrainians in Western countries."