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Thursday, 28 October 2004

Nazi Headlines Gone Wild

posted by jstanforth @ 1:52 PM in megastores

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has a story with a headline: "Vancouver store pulls Nazi dolls, apologizes." The store turns out to be the local Virgin Megastore, and the headline neglects to mention that this was just one figure in a World-War-II-era game. Really has nothing to do with Virgin— they certainly didn’t do anything wrong here. If anything, they apologized in case they unintentionally offended anyone. The telling quote shows who the critics really had a problem with:

Dr. Robert Krell of the Vancouver Holocaust Education Center said he was pleased about the apology and removal of the dolls from the store but "truly astonished" to hear that a toy company had devoted time to creating the figures.