KFC apologises for Kristallnacht chicken and cheese promotion

This looks like a cautionary tale about automated marketing. Crafting a "celebrate $HOLIDAY with a bucket of chicken" seems to save an unnecessarily small amount of time while leading to this kind of embarrassment. It certainly doesn't look like it was malicious though, just stupid.

Nostalgically, I feel like there was a time when "holidays" were in a separate category from days of remembering an atrocity, so in the past this might have been safer. Though I can't really picture any holiday where KFC would be appropriate

KFC apologises after German Kristallnacht promotion - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33547031 - Nov 2022 (16 comments)

I think this is way beyond a "a fault in our system" error.

Until KFC publishes a detailed incident report I'd be keen to assume this was done by more than one Nazi sympathizer.