

In 2018, Vanity Fair published sketches of the Minions design. According to the museum, the shallow-water diving helmet was featured in two silent movies, "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" in 1916 and "Wet Gold" in 1921 and "looks remarkably similar to some little yellow animated characters known as Minions." The C7 submarine was commissioned in May 1907 and broken up in 1920, according to the museum.Ī website for this museum features a diving helmet that looks like the ones on the Facebook post. "This equipment was, in fact, an early attempt to save life," Sheldon said.

Matthew Sheldon, executive director of museum operations at the National Museum of the Royal Navy, told PolitiFact that the picture in the Instagram post is part of the museum’s "extensive submarine archive" and shows the crew of the World War I-era submarine C7 wearing "Hall-Rees escape apparatus." Rather, we found multiple fact-checks debunking this claim - which isn’t new and has circulated in several languages - as well as evidence that the photo was taken of submarine crew members decades before the Holocaust started.

MINION MEANING IN HEBREW MOVIE
We found no credible sources to corroborate the claim that the animated yellow, sometimes one-eyed minions in goggles from the "Despicable Me" movie franchise are inspired by Jewish children during the Holocaust, or that the photo pictured in the post shows Jewish children tortured during the Holocaust.
