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  • 2015-07-20 (xsd:date)
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  • Were Minions Inspired by Young Nazi Poison Gas Test Subjects? (en)
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  • On 19 July 2015, social media users shared a photograph along with a caption (translated from Spanish to English) reporting that it depicted young Holocaust victims who were subjected to Nazi gas experiments: The meme spread among Spanish-speaking Twitter users, though many were immediately skeptical of its claim: Earlier versions of the photograph presented it in a humorous context by tagging it as depicting a live-action film version of Despicable Me from the 1920s. In actuality the photograph was taken around 1908 (well before the advent of the Nazi Party), and the unusual gear depicted was known as the Hall and Rees Submarine escape apparatus: (en)
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