A Government official is alleged to have told an audience at a fringe event of the Conservative Party conference that Auschwitz could become a branch of Center Parcs.
The official was commenting following a recent trip to Poland.
He’s alleged to have told the audience, “Poland could be a really important market for the UK. One day it could replace Carlisle as a destination of choice for families getting away in search of a sub tropical swimming paradise. Auschwitz has huge amounts of land nobody is doing anything with. Once they’ve got rid of the gas chambers and installed decent 5-aside facilities families will flock there.”
Officials at Auschwitz have denied the plan but a spokesman for the investment group, Alphadogsstopatnothing said, “The potential of Auschwitz is amazing. It’s surrounded by a large amount of forest, has good transport links and has accommodation for many families.
I’ve visited it myself and one of the problems with it is showing people your pictures. When you get back and you invite your friends round, sit down with a bottle of wine and a Chinese and show them your photos. It puts a downer on things when you get to the one of you pretending to be hung at the gallows.
But, if we put a few 5-aside pitches in, opened the forest up for mountain biking and added a swimming pool people would be queuing to get in.
We’d have to overhaul the restaurant a bit. Stew and dumplings probably wouldn’t appeal. But, pulled pork, burgers and ribs would be possible. Plus, we could get a new gift shop in and sell pieces of the torture block.
Who knows, we could do a whole Centre Parcs Auschwitz experience where people live as prisoners for a few days to really experience what it must have been like.
Plus, kids will love the adventure pool that we’re going to build. We’ve just got to dig the bodies out of the mass grave first.”
Many people have called it crass and uncaring but Boris Johnson is understood to have found the idea inspiring.
