Tbar220 From United States of America, joined Feb 2000, 7011 posts, RR: 28 Posted (7 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 1951 times:
I'm sorry, but this just cracked me up If this isn't ironic, I don't know what is:
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German newspaper apologises for gas advert in Auschwitz article
Updated: 07/Feb/2006 18:07
A German regional newspaper has issued an apology for publishing an advertisement for the "gas of tomorrow" on the same page as a story on the killing of Sinti people at the Auschwitz death camp.
The Landeszeitung Lueneburg said its editors had failed to notice that the bright red advert for a utility company entitled "Today, E.ON is taking care of the gas of tomorrow" was placed within an article about an exhibition recounting the death of the Sinti in the Nazis’ most infamous camp.
“The linking of the subject of genocide in Auschwitz with this
advertisement was neither intended nor was it shrugged off. Unfortunately, it was a complete oversight," the paper said in the apology published on Tuesday on its website.
The paper said it had sent letters of apology to the Central Council of Sinti and Roma in Germany, the Central Council of Jews in Germany as well as to other victims’ groups and to E.ON.
The Nazis killed an estimated half a million Sinti and Roma, often by gassing.
L-188 From United States of America, joined Jul 1999, 29350 posts, RR: 62 Reply 3, posted (7 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 1938 times:
Quoting Jush (Reply 1): That is just rubbish. People are to sensitive. It's just a commercial. If you put it in relation you're just stupid.
Regds
Agreed, put it on Headlines with Leno and be done with it.
If it had been an add for Raid.....then be offended.
OBAMA-WORST PRESIDENT EVER....Even SKOORB would be better.
WhiteHatter From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 6, posted (7 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 8 hours ago) and read 1892 times:
It has to be an innocent mistake. Advertising and copy are usually two different departments, although proof reading should have spotted it.
The guys who compose the stories and the people who build the pages are often not even in the same building. With computerisation it could even have been a machine which inserted a suitable size block into a space on the page.
N229NW From United States of America, joined Sep 2004, 1850 posts, RR: 36 Reply 8, posted (7 years 3 months 1 week 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 1804 times:
That's hilarious. Sometimes you just have to be able to laugh.
My Romany wife lost a lot of her Sinti/Roma famliy in Auschwitz, and I'm Jewish; but that is just funny (we both agree).
Jamesbuk From United Kingdom, joined May 2005, 3968 posts, RR: 5 Reply 11, posted (7 years 3 months 1 week 14 hours ago) and read 1707 times:
Thats a BIIIIG oversight. The other week over here in england a plane took off from were i take flying lessons and crashed and sadly the pilot and passenger died, and the story appeared 1st page of the local newspaper but guess what add was next to it! A ad for the flying school i go to saying in large letters " Learn To Fly With Us"
Oversight or what.
Also another one of these happened recently, a guy came out of a local nightclub completely drunk and decided to walk home, he then walked a couple of miles till he fell in the river and sadly drowned and in the paper next to the story was the local swimming pool's monthly swimming lesson ad.
So it looks like newspapers do this often.
Rgds --James--
You cant have your cake and eat it... What the hells the point in having it then!!!
USAIRWAYS321 From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 1806 posts, RR: 10 Reply 12, posted (7 years 3 months 1 week 13 hours ago) and read 1689 times:
Quoting Jamesbuk (Reply 11): Also another one of these happened recently, a guy came out of a local nightclub completely drunk and decided to walk home, he then walked a couple of miles till he fell in the river and sadly drowned and in the paper next to the story was the local swimming pool's monthly swimming lesson ad.
HT From Germany, joined May 2005, 6471 posts, RR: 27 Reply 13, posted (7 years 3 months 1 week 11 hours ago) and read 1674 times:
I´m not intending to offend anyone, and I think it was a wise thing to apoplogize, however to my best knowledge we are talking about very different kinds of "gas" here.
The one "e.on" is intending to pipe through the pipeline is natural gas (which can be deadly when inhaled).
In Auschwitz there were tailormade, synthetic gasses in use (derived from solids), with "Zyklon B" being the more commonly known one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyklon_B
Q: Would there have been any reaction if the ad would have been for a company selling nitrogen (also a deadly gas, depending on concentration) ?
-HT
Carpe diem ! Life is too short to waste your time ! Keep in mind, that today is the first day of the rest of your life !
TriStar500 From Germany, joined Nov 1999, 4685 posts, RR: 47 Reply 14, posted (7 years 3 months 1 week 11 hours ago) and read 1670 times:
It would not have mattered, which gas was involved - a headline "From Luneburg to Auschwitz - exhibition on the fate of the Sinti during National Socialism" and an advert slogan "E.on already today takes care of the gas for tomorrow" just don't go together very well.
Homer: Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!
Jush From Germany, joined Apr 2005, 1636 posts, RR: 4 Reply 17, posted (7 years 3 months 1 week 10 hours ago) and read 1644 times:
Quoting HT (Reply 13): I´m not intending to offend anyone, and I think it was a wise thing to apoplogize, however to my best knowledge we are talking about very different kinds of "gas" here.
The one "e.on" is intending to pipe through the pipeline is natural gas (which can be deadly when inhaled).
In Auschwitz there were tailormade, synthetic gasses in use (derived from solids), with "Zyklon B" being the more commonly known one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyklon_B
Q: Would there have been any reaction if the ad would have been for a company selling nitrogen (also a deadly gas, depending on concentration) ?
-HT
Sorry but your complete reply is rubbish. To make it dependent from the gas which was used? Sorry that is utter bull. I think if it will offend anyone than it's just because of a gas ad and noone who is offended will care about that fact.
Apologizing is ok i my opinion although i wouldn't do it. But apologizing even for nothing doesn't hurt anyone.
Regds
jush
There is one problem with airbus. Though their products are engineering marvels they lack passion, completely.
JoKeR From Serbia, joined Nov 2004, 2152 posts, RR: 9 Reply 18, posted (7 years 3 months 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 1579 times:
Right, that's it! Let's burn down all BMW, Mercedes, Audi and Opel show rooms, destroy German embassies, throw out sauerkraut and pork knuckles, destroy Siemens mobile phones....
Sorry just had to...
The ad is just an unfortunate coincidence and it is very fair of the paper to issue an apology just in case. At the same time, a funny coincidence!
JAGflyer From Canada, joined Aug 2004, 3321 posts, RR: 4 Reply 20, posted (7 years 3 months 6 days 6 hours ago) and read 1579 times:
Just a question, what was used to kill the people was not what we think of as "gas" but rather chemical pellets which released a deadly vapour when exposed to air. Is this correct?
Supported the beer and soda can industry, recycle old airplanes!
NoUFO From Germany, joined Apr 2001, 7796 posts, RR: 13 Reply 21, posted (7 years 3 months 6 days 5 hours ago) and read 1579 times:
Quoting JAGflyer (Reply 20): Just a question, what was used to kill the people was not what we think of as "gas" but rather chemical pellets which released a deadly vapour when exposed to air. Is this correct?
That's correct. Zyklon B was a cyanide-based insecticide that was impregnated onto small (pea-size) pellets which were stored in cans.
In some countries, Zyklon B, though under a different trademark, is still used for pest control.
26 Rlwynn: The irony goes deeper. Zyclon b was mainly produced by two companies. I.G. Farben and Degussa. Today, Degussa is the chemical arm of E On.
27 VHXLR8: Almost as ironic as The Harold Holt Memorial Swim Centre is suburban Melbourne. Harold Holt is an ex-prime minister who drowned.
28 JAGflyer: Yes, I remember that now. The chemical was called Zyklon B and was produced by the "Degauss" company. There was a story about a man who's dentist want
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