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An online store has under a storm of criticism for items with images of Auschwitz-Birkenau - the Nazi German concentration camp. The website Redbubble has for selling skirts, pillows, bags and other products that photos of Auschwitz on them. The Auschwitz Memorial Museum that the products were "disturbing and disrespectful". It asked: "Do you really that selling such products as pillows, mini skirts or tote bags with the images of Auschwitz - a place of enormous human tragedy where over 1.1 million people were - is acceptable?" Redbubble quickly and said it was taking "immediate action to " the items.

It is that at least 1.3 million people were sent to and in the concentration camp in German-occupied Poland during World War II. Over 90 per cent of these were Jews. The Nazis 1.1 million of the detainees between 1940-45. Poles, Romani, Russian prisoners of war and others also killed. Most of the 1.1 million in the gas chambers. Others of starvation, hard labor and disease. Redbubble said it, "takes a strong stance against racism and violence, the atrocities in Nazi concentration camps". A Twitter user : "How very disrespectful to the memories of those by the Nazis and the pain of their families."