Auschwitz Museum Releases Software To Rewrite Holocaust Nomenclature (thestack.com)

Posted by timothy on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @05:30AM from the gentle-suggestions dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum has released software for Windows and Mac which is intended to catch and rewrite terms such as 'Polish death camps' and other phrases which associate the Polish people with the atrocities of the holocaust, rather than the occupying German forces which created and ran the death camps. The software comes in the form of Microsoft Word Add-Ins on Windows and a revision to the system-wide dictionary in OSX, making the facility available to Mac programs including Safari, Keynote and Outlook. A spokesperson for the ad agency that developed the programs said, "We decided to make use of the primary tool used by text writers and create an easy to install add-on that finds the mistake made and suggests a correct phrase."

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Does it fix anything else? by Anonymous Coward · 2016-02-17 06:21 · Score: 0, Troll

Does it also fix the ridiculously overblown 6000000 figure that is still quoted even though the number of people killed at each death camp has been reduced by orders of magnitude?