Copyranter spotted this insensitive — to put it mildly — Chilean PS3 Ad that shows a gamer giving a blood transfusion to German field marshal Erwin Rommel while laying in beds whose headboards are adorned with swastikas.
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Advertising Gone Wrong: What Rhymes with ‘Shoah?’
A tip for the future ad sales teams of the newspaper Landeszeitung Luneburg: When running an article commemorating the 61st anniversary of the Red Army’s liberation of the concentration camp at Auschwitz, try not to also run an advertising from a German energy company with the tagline “E.ON provides today for the gas of tomorrow.”