Fast food chain KFC has been forced to apologise after sending a message to its customers in Germany urging them to commemorate Kristallnacht with cheesy chicken.
In a push notification from its mobile app, the company wrote: "It's memorial day for Kristallnacht! Treat yourself with more tender cheese on your crispy chicken.”
Kristallnacht or the Night of Broken Glass, often referred to as ‘Novemberpogrome’ in German, was an antisemitic pogrom carried out by the Nazi party’s SA and SS paramilitary forces along with the Hitler Youth and German civilians throughout Nazi Germany on 9-10 November, 1938.
Its name is derived from the many shards of broken glass that littered the streets after the windows of Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues were smashed.
