mapping service Google Maps on the Internet for several days pointed to “Adolf-Hitler-Platz” (Square of Adolf Hitler) in central Berlin, named by an external contributor and accepted unquestioningly the supervision of the company.
Several vehicles
the Berlin press rebounded on Friday the gaffe Google Maps, identified by multiple users of the social network Twitter.
named Adolf Hitler square in the application actually called Theodor Heuss, the first president in the Federal Republic of Germany memory, who died in 1963.
During
Nazism, from Hitler’s rise to power in 1933 until the end of the Third Reich in 1945, the site actually took the name of the Nazi dictator.
According
ojornal “Berliner Zeitung”, an anonymous contributor renamed earlier this year, the map service named “Adolf-Hitler-Platz”, as an alternative to the current name, which was accepted by a supervisor of the company .
After another user alert, on January 9, the existence of the name, Google apologized. “We became aware of a misnomer wrong and in Berlin and correct it as quickly as possible,” explained the search giant in an email to NBC News. “We apologize for this error.”
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