Before I get eyed with suspicion: I personally have zero doubt that German government under the Nazi's organised killing factories that inflicted unspeakable horror and many millions of deaths.

So of course it got my goat at a recent party when a friend of the host began talking about "exaggerated numbers" and how the allies supposedly played up German war crimes of WWII while underplaying their own.

The latter thing is most probably true, but he was using it to imply a fictionalisation of the killing factories.

One thing he said got me curious: he said that after liberating Auschwitz, the Russian occupiers rebuilt parts of it. He was implying that the reconstruction was ordered in an allied attempt to create either a myth of mass-murder, or exaggerate the number of the murdered.

I'm just wondering where he got this idea from.

Does anyone know about Russian construction/reconstruction of parts of Auschwitz after the liberation of the camp?

If this happened - what is the history of how this construction/reconstruction became part of denialism?

thanks.