WWE has issued an apology regarding Auschwitz footage being depicted in a promotional video that ran during WrestleMania 39.
During the entrance for Dominik Mysterio on night one of WrestleMania, footage of Dominik inside of a prison was accompanied by an image of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
During the Holocaust, over one million people were killed at the concentration camp.
WWE has since removed the footage from the entrance presentation for Dominik and replaced it with generic footage.
The controversy was called out by the Auschwitz Memorial outlet
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
A WWE spokesperson has issued an apology to the Washington Post for the error:
We had no knowledge of what was depicted. As soon as we learned, it was removed immediately.
To learn more about the Auschwitz atrocities, you can seek out education from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
