Ausch-Fashion
When you think about it, this might not be so obscene as it appears at first glance. Concentration camp prisoners and fashion models share the same diet, after all:
The airline easyJet is withdrawing all copies of its in-flight magazine, easyJet Traveller, after a row erupted over a tasteless fashion shoot at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin.
The airline took the decision after being contacted by the New Statesman this afternoon.
The latest issue of the in-flight magazine featured two unsanctioned photographs of models posing in designer clothes among the famous concrete blocks of the “Field of Stelae”, Germany’s foremost memorial to commemorate the six million Jewish victims of the Nazi genocide.
In their defense, the executives at easyJet defecated a cinder block when they found out, and apologized all over themselves.
But, for once, the British themselves got the message, and expressed it exactly right:
Labour MP Denis MacShane, who heads the European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism, told newstatesman.com
“This is further evidence of the banalisation of anti-Semitism and the trivialisation of the genocidal massacre of Jews in the Second World War.”
I’d say so.
I eagerly await the exploitation of other emotionally charged memorials, and offer my own as a start:
Haunting memories courtesy of Vietnam.
Lost comrades courtesy of Lyndon Johnson.
Overwhelming grief courtesy of Robert McNamara.
Classic look and expert tailoring courtesy of Paul Stuart.
Bloodthirsty Liberal said,
November 21, 2009 @ 7:48 am
The “British” didn’t necessarily get it - Denis MacShane understood. He is behind the government study of antisemitism in Britain and is tireless is attempting to explain to his countrymen that they have a very serious problem. He is unique. Most Brits are either clueless or worse.
- Aggie