WIRED BusinessHow Auschwitz Christmas Ornaments Ended Up for Sale on Amazon
The day before Cyber Monday, Amazon’s largest shopping event of the year, the company faced yet another controversy over offensive items for sale on its site. On Sunday, Amazon removed Christmas tree ornaments, a bottle opener, and other products featuring pictures of Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration camp where historians estimate over one million people, most of them Jews, were killed during the Holocaust.
