Kyle Langford, a Republican candidate in the 2026 California gubernatorial election, doubled down on saying that Auschwitz presents a model for eliminating unemployment after drawing a rebuke from the official Auschwitz memorial.

“My 0% unemployment plan,” he wrote on July 25.

The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum said that “the instrumentalization of the tragedy of all those imprisoned and murdered in the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz for political messaging is a profound moral failure.”