World Wrestling Entertainment has apologized for using a shot of the Auschwitz concentration camp in a promo during last week’s WrestleMania.
A video highlighting the feud between Rey and Dominic Mysterio – a real-life father and son – used a clip from a camp.
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In the promo, Dominic said he “served hard time” in prison, playing into the story in which he beat up his father on Christmas and was arrested.
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Shots of barbed wire and a prison cell were used before panning to a shot of Camp.
“We had no idea what was depicted,” WWE said in a statement. “As soon as we found out, it was immediately removed.”
The clip has since been edited.
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“The fact that an image of Auschwitz was used to promote a WWE match is hard to call an ‘editing error,'” the Auschwitz Memorial tweeted earlier this week. Exploiting a site that has become a symbol of a great human tragedy is shameless and insults the memory of all the victims of Auschwitz.”
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Auschwitz was the largest of Germany’s Nazi concentration camps, where an estimated 1.1 million people perished.
