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WWE apologizes for using clip of Auschwitz concentration camp in WrestleMania promo
By Ryan Morik
Published April 07, 2023
World Wrestling Entertainment has issued an apology for using a shot of an Auschwitz concentration camp in a promo during WrestleMania last weekend.
A video highlighting the feud between Rey and Dominik Mysterio — a real-life father and son — used a clip of one of the camps.
A WrestleMania sign hangs over the crowd during a WWE Monday Night RAW event in Boston on March 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
In the promo, Dominik said he "served hard time" in prison, playing into the storyline in which he beat up his father on Christmas and was arrested.
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Shots of barbed wire and a jail cell were used before it panned to a shot of the camp.
"We had no knowledge of what was depicted," WWE said in a statement. "As soon as we learned, it was removed immediately."
The clip has since been revised.
Rey Mysterio greets the crowd during a WWE World Cup quarterfinal match as part of the WWE Crown Jewel pay-per-view at King Saud University Stadium in Riyadh on Nov. 2, 2018. (Fayez Nureldine/AFP via Getty Images)
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"The fact that Auschwitz image was used to promote a WWE match is hard to call 'an editing mistake,'" the Auschwitz Memorial tweeted earlier this week, "Exploiting the site that became a symbol of enormous human tragedy is shameless and insults the memory of all victims of Auschwitz."
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Auschwitz was the largest of Germany's Nazi concentration camps, where an estimated 1.1 million people were killed.
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