Burger King sued after advertising in Dachau
The directors of the memorial site in the Nazi camp in Germany claim that the chain's employees placed pamphlets on the cars of visitors where tens of thousands were murdered during World War II.
Hundreds of thousands of people visit the concentration camp each year. More than 40,000 people were murdered there by Nazi Germany.
In a lawsuit filed by the site's managers against the fast-food chain, it was claimed that its employees had entered a private parking lot where visitors to the site parked their cars. According to them, Burger King employees placed leaflets on the windows and doors of the cars. Since the lot is private, the site's management is allowed to ban advertising in its vicinity.
"This suit is intended to protect the dignity of the place," explained the site's director, Dr. Gabriele Hammermann. "We perceive advertising on the site, which for many is a place of mourning and a cemetery, as an inappropriate act."
The Dachau concentration camp is located near Munich. The Nazis established it in 1933, and more than 40,000 people were murdered there before American forces liberated it on April 29, 1945.
