He would like to come to Auschwitz again. That much is clear. But the words Arnold Schwarzenegger chooses for this promise are perceived by some as distasteful. The Hollywood star was criticized on Twitter – the concentration camp museum defended him.
Arnold Schwarzenegger alienated some people with his choice of words in the museum guest book of the former Auschwitz concentration camp. The “Terminator” immortalized himself in the words of his most famous film character: “I’ll be back”.
The museum itself had shared the entry on Twitter. In the comments to the guest book entry, however, many criticized that the pop culture quote would not have been appropriate to the location. Now the museum has clarified what was behind the message: “The visit was scheduled to be relatively short. The words should be understood as a promise to return for another, more in-depth visit.”
Schwarzenegger had previously received the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation’s Prize for Fighting Hate. After visiting the former concentration camp and museum site, he tweeted, among other things: “This is a story that must live, that we must tell again and again. We can all do our part to end hatred if we are willing to tell the story Doing work and educating ourselves. Never again.”
On Tuesday, Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder awarded Schwarzenegger the honorary award of the Bavarian Television Prize. According to the CSU boss, this was a tribute to the 75-year-old’s great commitment to social media against propaganda and disinformation about the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine. In particular, it is about a video that Schwarzenegger published almost a month after Russia invaded the neighboring country. With haunting words and Cyrillic subtitles he drew the Russians’ attention to the injustice of the war.
