San Francisco, CA – A U.S. group of Holocaust survivors on Friday condemned an Apple iPhone application featuring speeches by wartime dictator Benito Mussolini, calling it “an insult to the memory of all victims of Nazism and fascism.”
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“It is a disgrace and a surrender to crass commercialism that the Apple computing company has approved the release of this ‘app’ through their online iTunes store,” said Elan Steinberg of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants. “This should be condemned for its offence to decency.”
According to the creator of the “historical” application, Luigi Marino, 25, Italians are downloading “iMussolini,” which features audio, text and video of his speeches, at a rate of around 1,000 a day, making it the bestselling application on Italy’s online Apple store.
Something must be rotten Apple….
You can report the app as offensive at the app store, I did it – maybe apple will take notice (if they care).
Is that the same Mussolini who had a Jewish wife, the one who resisted sending Italian Jews to camps even though Hitler demanded it?
There are more important areas to be concerned about than restricting someone else’s freedom of expression. Like for instance, when a moslem extremist kills 13 innocents and wounds dozen more at a US military facility while screaming Allah Akbar. And the authorities announce there is no reason to believe this was a terrorist attack. That is reason for concern.
yes he was a monster and a lot of jews were sent to auschwitz one of them was my uncle victor a”h.