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The Moment. In this daily feature until Election Day, the National Post captures a telling moment in time from the 2015 campaign trail.

As she tried to explain away an Auschwitz-related penis joke, a Hamilton school trustee running for the NDP explained that she had actually never heard of the notorious Nazi death camp located in German-occupied Poland.

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“Well, I didn’t know what Auschwitz was, or I didn’t up until today,” Alex Johnstone, a Hamilton public school trustee, told a reporter for the Hamilton Spectator after a candidate’s debate.

The comment was spurred by a phenomenon that has come to define the 2015 election: Someone had just dug up an embarrassing post from Johnstone’s Facebook page.

Specifically, in 2008 one of the candidate’s friends had posted a photo from their trip to Poland featuring concrete posts used to hold up electric fencing at Auschwitz.

Through these posts had flowed high-voltage electricity that had killed countless slave-labour inmates who were either attempting to escape — or had flung themselves onto the wire in an act of hopeless desperation.