'The Man in the High Castle' ads which decorated subway cars in New York City have been pulled by Amazon Studios after commuters upset with the symbols of Nazy Germany and Imperial Japan.
- November 25, 2015
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Amazon has pulled "The Man in the High Castle" ads which decorated subway cars in New York City after the symbols of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan upset commuters. Posters for the series will appear in subway stations until December 6.
The seats on a 42nd Street shuttle train in New York City have been decorated with the ads which had been scheduled to be displayed until December 14. "Half the seats in my car had Nazi insignias inside an American flag, while the other half had the Japanese flag in a style like the World War II design," straphanger Ann Toback complained to Gothamist, "So I had a choice, and I chose to sit on the Nazi insignia because I really didn't want to stare at it."
Should The MTA Allow These Nazi Insignias On Subway Cars? https://t.co/aWMZ5Snnn5 pic.twitter.com/Pnu25bQvhP
— Gothamist (@Gothamist) November 23, 2015
In a statement to EW, "Man in the High Castle" creator and exec producer Frank Spotnitz says, "It's very difficult with a show with subject matter like this to market it tastefully, so I understand they're walking a very difficult line," adding that he doesn't work with the studio for marketing decisions like these.
"If they had asked me, I would have strongly advised them not to do it. ... I read what the director of the Anti-Defamation League said, and I thought he was 100 percent correct, which is that when you take these symbols out of the context of the show, then they can be offensive and upset people. Within the show, there is a context where you see why [they're used], but just to put them out like that without the context was unfortunate."
