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Yolocaust: A satirist's challenge to Holocaust tourist behaviour
A German-based satirist has unveiled an online a project which draws attention to what some may consider inappropriate at Berlin's holocaust memorial
"A German-based satirist has unveiled online a project designed to draw attention to what some may consider young people’s inappropriate behaviour when visiting Berlin’s holocaust memorial.
Entitled “Yolocaust” – a play on words of both the Nazi Holocaust and the millennial catchphrase You Only Live Once, or “YOLO” – Shahak Shapira, an Israeli satirist and author, lifted self-portrait images without permission from social media accounts including Facebook, Instagram, Tinder and Grindr and superimposed them onto archived images showing Nazi extermination camp victims."