German paper mistakenly places ad for “gas of tomorrow” next to story about Auschwitz
From The Australian (full story here):
A GERMAN newspaper has apologised for
accidentally placing a utility company advertisement for "the gas of
tomorrow" inside a full-page story on the Nazi killing of Sinti (Gypsy)
people in Auschwitz concentration camp.
The Landeszeitung Lueneburg
said on its website today it had not noticed that the article about a
local exhibition describing the fate of the Sinti in Hitler’s Germany
appeared on the same page as an advert for utility company E.ON which
read:
"E.ON is taking care of the gas of tomorrow, today."
"We apologise for this mistake, which both contradicts the article’s
intention of shedding light on an almost forgotten chapter of National
Socialism, and also undeservedly casts the utility in a questionable
light," it said in a statement.
If you read German, go here to check out the apology. And here, via this post on Backspace.com, is the page from the paper (click for larger view):
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