An Australian radio station was censured for making light of Auschwitz. The Australian Broadcasting Authority found that Melbourne’s popular Nova 100 FM station breached the commercial code when it ran a segment of its “Dilemma” competition in which entrants were put in the position of having to choose between saving their mother or their child from the Auschwitz gas chambers.
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