Fact Check: California Governor Candidate Kyle Langford DID Post Auschwitz Photo as '0% Unemployment Plan'
Lead Stories Staff
Mon, July 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM EDT
Did Kyle Langford, a Republican candidate for governor of California, post a photo of himself in front of the Auschwitz-Stammlager Nazi concentration camp, along with the description "My 0% Unemployment Plan"? Yes, that's true: Screenshots of the X post were authentic. In response to criticism for the post, Langford insisted "I wasn't joking, I think it is exactly what is needed..."
Image source: Screenshot of July 26, 2025, post by instagram.com/europeandemocrats
That was an authentic screenshot of a real post.
On July 25, Langford posted what appeared to be a photo of himself in front of the main entrance to the Auschwitz-Stammlager Nazi concentration camp in Poland, along with the text "My 0% Unemployment Plan 


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Image source: Screenshot of a July 25, 2025, post by x.com/KyleLangfordCA
The implication behind
Langford's post (archived
here) was that he would achieve full employment in California through forced labor in concentration camps.
In a
post on X (archived
here), the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum condemned Langford's post, calling it a "profound moral failure" and "an affront to the dignity of the victims" of the camp.