The online world unleashed its wrath on a teenage girl when she tweeted a smiling selfie at a Nazi death camp in Poland.
Breanna Mitchell, who reportedly just graduated from high school, posted a picture of her beaming while standing at the Auschwitz Concentration Camp with brown buildings in the background. Mitchell tweeted the image last month, but recently the picture made the rounds on the Internet, causing a storm over the girl's apparent insensitivity.
"How can you be happy and smile in this pic? Do you not understand the horrors and murders that happened there?" one user tweeted according to The Mirror.
The picture has since received thousands of retweets. Scores of others responded with abusive comments aimed at Mitchell, who said she took the picture after studying the Holocaust with her father. But her father died before they could take the trip together, according to the newspaper.
"My relatives died at Auschwitz, can I smile at your dad's death?" another user wrote.
Mitchell, who is believed to be American, didn't seem to understand why people were so upset.
"Omg I wish people would quit tweeting to, quoting, retweeting, and favoriting my picture of my smiley in Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Like apparently is such a big deal that I smiled," Mitchell tweeted under the name Princess Breanna, according to The Mirror.
"Good Lord," she added.
Over 1.1 million Jewish men, women and children were killed at the death camp controlled by Nazi Germany during World War II.
However, the teen did appear somewhat satisfied with the attention.
"Over 2000 retweets on the pic that wasn't supposed to get this much attention," Mitchell tweeted according to the newspaper.
