Amazon's newest original series, "The Man In the High Castle," imagines a world where the Axis Powers won World War II, with Japan and Germany ruling over the United States.
It's a fictional series, but on Monday, New Yorkers riding the shuttle between Times Square and Grand Central Station got an idea of what that fictional world might look like when they discovered that Amazon had decked out the train in Nazi-esque imagery, including World War II-era Japanese Rising Sun flags and the US flag modified to include the German imperial eagle.
Here's a look.
—Katherine Lam (@byKatherineLam) November 23, 2015
“Half the seats in my car had Nazi insignia inside an American flag, while the other half had the Japanese flag in a style like the World War II design,” one subway rider, Ann Toback, told Gothamist on Monday. “So I had a choice, and I chose to sit on the Nazi insignia because I really didn’t want to stare at it.”
Amazon pulled its advertising from subway cars on Tuesday.
Online, some people are not too happy with the ad campaign.
—Elle Keck (@ElleKeck) November 24, 2015
—jpaznik (@jpaznik) November 23, 2015
—Black Pete (@EtepKcalb) November 18, 2015