Before an anticipated WrestleMania match last week, WWE used a photo of the Auschwitz concentration camp in a promotional video. Auschwitz Memorial condemned the footage Wednesday on Twitter.
Then, the video transitioned to a photo of the Auschwitz concentration camp, where more than a million people were killed during the Holocaust.“The fact that [an] Auschwitz image was used to promote a WWE match is hard to call ‘an editing mistake,’”. “Exploiting the site that became a symbol of enormous human tragedy is shameless and insults the memory of all victims of Auschwitz.”
WWE replaced the image of Auschwitz with generic footage of barbed wire on later airings and reruns. In a statement to The Washington Post, a WWE spokesman apologized, calling the footage an error.“We had no knowledge of what was depicted,” the statement said. “As soon as we learned, it was removed immediately.
The video was shown on the streaming service Peacock before a WrestleMania match that had been teasedThe storyline continued in November, when Dominik and his on-screen girlfriend, Rhea Ripley,
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