Why Amazon Plastered This NYC Subway Train With Nazi and Imperial Japanese Imagery

Some riders object to ads for an alternate history show

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UPDATE: Amazon is pulling these ads, reports Variety. UPDATE 2: Gothamist has more on the removal of the ads, revealing that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo pressured the MTA to take the ads down. Amazon did not request their removal. 

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Amazon's advertising for its latest original series, The Man in the High Castle, includes symbols of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan posted all over a Shuttle train in New York City's subway.

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