Auschwitz WWE News: Regarding using pictures from the Auschwitz concentration camp in a WrestleMania 39 promo package last weekend, WWE issued an apology. According to David K. Li of NBC News, a WWE representative reportedly remarked, “We had no awareness of what was presented. As soon as we discovered it, we removed the video immediately. We sincerely regret this error.” A tweet from the Auschwitz Memorial and Museum criticizing WWE for “exploiting” a poignant symbol of grief and tragedy prompted the statement. Follow the latest WWE News Updates with InsideSport.IN
WWE Delivers an Apology to Auschwitz Memorial
An image of Auschwitz was used in the initial video package for the WrestleMania match between Rey Mysterio and his son, Dominik Mysterio, in an apparent attempt to depict a prison yard. Rey once had Dom jailed during the plot involving him and Dominik, which caused Dom to take on the persona of an ex-convict. Dominik arrived at SoFi Stadium for WrestleMania while cuffed inside a police car.
WrestlingInc’s Shaun Ranft revealed that while an image of Auschwitz initially appeared in the video package for Rey vs. Dominik, it was later taken out and did not appear in the promo that aired during WrestleMania.
The fact that Auschwitz image was used to promote a WWE match is hard to call “an editing mistake”. Exploiting the site that became a symbol of enormous human tragedy is shameless and insults the memory of all victims of Auschwitz.https://t.co/b4bbYgWPwj https://t.co/Xud4rbhEUS pic.twitter.com/tuJrzmK6mQ
— Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) April 5, 2023
Auschwitz is one of the most infamous concentration and extermination camps the Nazi authority established and managed during World War II in the 1940s; of the estimated 1.3 million individuals brought there, 1.1 million were killed.
The Holocaust, which was the Nazis’ aim to exterminate all Jews worldwide, was greatly influenced by Auschwitz. The Nazi administration, its allies, and collaborators are estimated to have killed 6 million Jews and at least 5 million non-Jewish prisoners of war between 1941 and 1945.
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