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Amazon Pulls Nazi Ad Campaign From New York Subway

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Amazon has got itself into a spot of bother over an advertising campaign which replaced New York subway seats with those adorned with the Nazi Iron Eagle.

The Mayor of New York City Bill deBlasio has even waded in to call the ads ‘irresponsible and offensive’.

The stunt was to market its new series, 'The Man In The High Castle’, the adaptation of the Philip K. Dick novel which proffers an alternate future in which the Allies lost the war and the US is occupied by Nazi and Japanese forces.

The subway seating was plastered with the US flag featuring the Iron Eagle, and also Japanese-American flags - Japan occupies the west coast in the series, while the Nazis occupy the east coast.

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While the ads stopped short of displaying the Nazi swastika, subway riders were quick to question whether the campaign was in good taste.

The ads have now been pulled, according to Variety.

“Amazon has just decided to pull the ads,” Kevin Ortiz, a rep for New York City Transit and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority told the magazine.

So far Amazon has not commented on the matter, but according to the MTA, the ads broke no rules.

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“The ads do not violate our content-neutral ad standards and thus we have no grounds to reject them,” Ortiz added.

“The MTA is a government agency and can’t accept or reject ads based on how we feel about them; we have to follow the standards approved by our board.”

So far Amazon has not commented on the ads, or their removal.

The series, which is streaming now on Amazon’s Prime service, stars Alexa Davalos, Rupert Friend and Rufus Sewell.

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