 November 9, 2022 MORE : One dead and a dozen sick from deli meat and cheese food poisoning MORE : Woman who murdered pregnant friend and ripped baby from womb sentenced to death MORE : Germany to legalise cannabis for recreational use by 2024 Around an hour later another message was sent with an apology, according to the Bild newspaper. 'We are very sorry, we will check our internal processes immediately so that this does not happen again. Please excuse this error,' the message is reported to have said. Germany takes the 9 November anniversary of Kristallnacht (the night of broken glass) seriously, with numerous memorial events and discussions scheduled to reflect the Nazis' murder of more than six million Jewish people. Daniel Sugarman, Director of Public Affairs at the Board of Deputies of British Jews described the original KFC message as 'absolutely hideous'. Dalia Grinfeld, the associate director of European affairs at the Jewish NGO Anti-Def){kind=link}
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KFC has been forced to apologise after sending a message to customers in Germany, urging them to commemorate Kristallnacht with cheesy chicken.
The Nazi-led series of attacks in the country in 1938 left more than 90 people dead, and destroyed Jewish-owned businesses and places of worship.
On 9 November 1938, mobs torched and ransacked synagogues and Jewish-owned businesses across Germany, an event widely seen as the start of the Third Reich’s drive to wipe out Jews.
The fast-food chain later blamed the message on ‘an error in our system’.