Paper sorry for Holocaust ad error

Herald Sun ^ | 1 February 2006

[Aussie Dasher]

You idiots!!!!!

[EveningStar]

What a gas.

[Ronin]

Duh....

[onyx]

Absolutely AWFUL.

[GLDNGUN]

It's a lose-lose situation. The Jews are offended. The utility company certainly isn't happy and won't want to pay for such ad placement. The readers are reviled. And the paper looks like a bunch of embiciles.

Other than that, it was a great idea.

[Alouette]

Send them to tolerance camp.

[pipecorp]

boy those nazis have got a sense of humor, don't they. oops i mean germans.

[VOA]

That's almost as rich as the Japanese car commercial that aired with
the tune from "The Bridge Over The River Kwai".

I grimmaced the first time I heard it...within a week complaints drove
it off the air.
I think it was Nissan.

[SJackson]

It's a lose-lose situation. The Jews are offended.

Perhaps, though if you read the article, it's not about slaughtering Jews.

[Mike Darancette]

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.

Stupid headline ping.

[beelzepug]

Enough to give a person the vapors.

[Grim]

With the Germans, everything is gas.

[dighton]

IIRC, there was a similar gaffe on US television, long ago. Someone here will know the particulars.

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[muir_redwoods]

I saw an ad once in the Hartford Courant run by a local auto dealer wherein he referred to his end-of-year sale as "The Final Solution". I called him about and he seemed genuinely confused at the volume of calls he was getting.

[Shermy]

I believe it was soap commercials during airings of Sophie's Choice.

[GLDNGUN]

Perhaps, though if you read the article, it's not about slaughtering Jews.

Many Jews were gassed, so I can certainly see them being offended at the insensitivity of the paper.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

...oops i mean germans.

"Whatever you do...don't mention the war."

[SJackson]

Many Jews were gassed, so I can certainly see them being offended at the insensitivity of the paper.

I could too. If it's deliberate, which I doubt, I'd be offended.

[dighton]

That might have happened too, but I'm dimly recalling something older, involving a gas utility and -- Judgement at Nuremberg?