Auschwitz and Disney. Putting the two words together is incongruous, if not grotesque.
Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest of all the Nazi concentration camps, where around a million Jews were murdered along with a further 100,000 ‘undesirables’.
There is no place on earth that still resonates more of evil, even to this day, 81 years after its liberation.
Yet a forthcoming Disney+ reality series includes its stars being taken around Auschwitz. It seems unimaginably crass. Outrageous, even.
And when you learn that the series is The Real Rooneys, starring Wayne and Coleen Rooney, it would be understandable if your reaction was to think that Disney+
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