MIAMI — World Wrestling Enjoyment apologized Friday immediately after working with footage of Auschwitz, the notorious Nazi focus and extermination camp, in a advertising location for a hyped father-son match.
On Twitter, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum stated it was really hard to call it an “editing oversight.”
“Exploiting the web-site that turned a symbol of great human tragedy is shameless and insults the memory of all victims of Auschwitz,” the organization tweeted.
The marketing movie for WrestleMania 39 highlighted WWE wrestler Dominik Mysterio, who has an ongoing rivalry with his father, Rey Mysterio, and was “arrested” in December for pushing him.
“You feel this is a sport to me. I served tough time. And I survived,” the younger Mysterio claimed. The advertisement then cuts to images of prisons, 1 of which was Auschwitz, in which Nazis murdered around 1 million people.
“We had no expertise of what was depicted,” the WWE stated in a assertion to CNN. “As shortly as we learned, it was eliminated quickly. We apologize for this mistake.”
The gaffe swiftly caught the interest of social media end users.
In later airings and reruns of the first night time of WrestleMania, the footage confirmed an picture of barbed wire.
WWE is acknowledged for its outlandish storylines. In this father-son rivalry, Dominik ultimately turned on Rey, culminating in an altercation on Christmas Eve. The gag was that nevertheless Rey only spent a few hours in jail, he took on a hardened criminal persona.
Rey conquer Dominik on Evening 1 of WrestleMania 39 at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles to “educate him a lesson about regard.”
WWE mentioned WrestleMania 39 was the most productive and highest-grossing event in organization history, with around 500 million views and 11 million several hours of online video consumed around the two days.
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