The Tik Tok social media account “fakte.konspirative” that creates content in the Albanian language has made several claims regarding the characters of the animated film “Minions", adding that they are based on "Jewish children tortured by the Nazis during Holocaust".
In this video, this account also presented an image of several people equipped with clothing/equipment resembling the characters of "Minions", whom it claims are Jewish children.
However, after researching through online search engines, hibrid.info has managed to confirm that this image depicts professional divers and that those clothes/equipment were used around 1909.
Link to the video material published on Tik Tok by the account "fakte.konspirative":
The following content has been added to this video: "Minions" is based on these Jewish children tortured by the Nazis during the Holocaust, their high-pitched voices in the film are meant to represent the high-pitched screams of children during cruel experiments.
After research conducted through the automated online program "InVID", hibrid.info managed to find this photograph of professional divers, on the online platform "DivingHeritage.com" (dealing with the development of professional diving equipment over the years)The description of this photo states that the image was taken around 1909. (see here)
The photo found on this online platform carries the description: “HM Submarine C7 training crew with Hall-Rees escape apparatus, circa 1909. The apparatus jacket was fitted with an internal moving chamber at the front and a mouth-blown inflation tube. Once inflated the window could be opened to the surface. The 1910 illustration by GH Davis during the King’s visit depicts an ideal situation inside the submarine, which in today’s reality would be very cramped!
Analyze:
A TikTok account has published a video claiming that the characters in the animated film "Minions" are based on a photograph of "Jewish children tortured by the Nazis during the Holocaust."
After verifying the facts, hibrid.info has confirmed that the image used by this account on "Tik Tok" does not depict Jewish children, as claimed, but professional divers in diving clothing/equipment around 1909.
Based on the working methodology, hibrid.info assesses the content in this video as "Conspiracy Theory".
Reasoning:
"Conspiracy theories" are media reports that disseminate a false or unverifiable description of a phenomenon, event, or person, presenting it as part of or the result of a secret plan ("conspiracy"). A characteristic of these reports is that they present a series of claims, presented as facts, between which cause-effect relationships are established, without providing any credible evidence.