OSWIECIM , Poland, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- Cooling "misting stations" placed outside the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz in Poland have been compared to the gas showers used to kill inmates in World War II.
A heat wave across Europe, featuring temperatures up to 100 degrees, prompted officials to provide overhead mist sprinklers to those standing in line to enter the Auschwitz Memorial on the grounds of the former concentration camp. To some, the mist from overhead tubes was reminiscent of the delivery of poison gas in exterminating concentration camp victims.