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Amazon bows to public pressure and scraps Nazi subway car

on Nov 25, 2015 | 0 comments

By John Glenday

Amazon has bowed to public pressure and elected to destroy a controversial subway car advertisement in New York following complaints from passengers upset at the Nazi and Imperial Japanese imagery it contained.

Designed to promote its new alternate history drama The Man in the High Castle the themed carriage contained a Nazi Eagle overlayed on the Stars and Stripes as well as Rising Sun iconography associated with Japan during World War 2.

Initially Amazon had defended the installation but amidst criticism from New York mayor Bill de Blasio and calls for a boycott the etailer was forced to swiftly backtrack Read full story ›

Source: The Drum