KFC apologises for Kristallnicht promotion

Maybe I'm a bad man for laughing but WTF were they thinking?! Is this uneducated millennials again?

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KFC has been forced to apologise after sending a notification to German customers encouraging them to commemorate the Kristallnacht anti-Jewish pogrom with fried chicken and cheese.

The fast food chain sent a notification on Wednesday suggesting customers "treat themselves" on the anniversary of the 1938 Kristallnacht, or Night of Broken Glass, the Bild daily reported.

On November 9, 1938, Nazi mobs torched and ransacked synagogues and Jewish-owned businesses across Germany in what is widely seen as the start of the Third Reich's drive to wipe out Jews.

"Commemoration of Kristallnacht - Treat yourself to more soft cheese and crispy chicken. Now at KFCheese!," the message reportedly read.

KFC sent another message around an hour later blaming the blunder on "an error in our system", Bild said.

"We are very sorry, we will check our internal processes immediately so that this does not happen again. Please excuse this error," the message said.

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KFC apologises for Kristallnacht chicken promotion | Fin24

The Grauniad explains a bit more about the technical error.

KFC apologises for Kristallnacht chicken and cheese promotion | Germany | The Guardian

Thanks Harry good catch

Agreed a terrible choice.

If I was really cynical it reminds of the Ryanair stunts like charging for toilets that got O'Leary's buget airline lots of front page coverage.

Of course the outlets get promo materials from HQ so perhaps in a very traditional way as the bucket munchers arrived

'THEY WERE ONLY FOLLOWING ORDER"

For those too young or far removed form European Horrors more on the horrors outlined above.


Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's Sturmabteilung (SA) paramilitary and Schutzstaffel (SS) paramilitary forces along with some participation from the Hitler Youth and German civilians throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938.

The German authorities looked on without intervening. The name Kristallnacht (literally 'Crystal Night') comes from the shards of broken glass that littered the streets after the windows of Jewish-owned stores, buildings and synagogues were smashed.

The pretext for the attacks was the assassination of the German diplomat Ernst vom Rath by Herschel Grynszpan, a 17-year-old German-born Polish Jew living in Paris.

Much more here, a very sobering read if you think an hour a year and 1900 baht to live in LOS is a hassle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht

The authorities not only did not intervene but actively fomented and encouraged anti-semitism , rather like racism n Thailand against hill tribes it was enshrined in laws.