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| German newspaper apologises for gas advert in Auschwitz article
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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.
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