(EuroNews) 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.
The “selfie” images show people in various poses while visiting the memorial, located central Berlin near tourist destinations including the Reichstag and the Brandenburg Gate.