World Wrestling Entertainment apologized Friday after using footage of Auschwitz, the infamous Nazi concentration and extermination camp, in a promotional spot for a hyped father-son match.
On Twitter, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum said it was hard to call it an"editing mistake."
The promotional video for WrestleMania 39 featured WWE wrestler Dominik Mysterio, who has an ongoing rivalry with his father, Rey Mysterio, and was"arrested" in December for pushing him. "We had no knowledge of what was depicted," the WWE said in a statement to CNN."As soon as we learned, it was removed immediately. We apologize for this error."In later airings and reruns of the first night of WrestleMania, the footage showed an image of barbed wire.
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