‘Deeply sorry’: Michigan State shows Hitler image before football game

A US college has apologised after it ignited fury by showing an image of Adolf Hitler on the big screen before a football game.

The image has sparked plenty of outrage. Photo: Twitter

A photo is circulating on the internet of the scoreboard at Spartan Stadium that appears to show Adolf Hitler on the screen.

The scoreboard showed Hitler and beside him “Austria,” the country he was born in.

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The photo was taken before Michigan State faced their instate rival in No. 2 Michigan on Saturday night. The scoreboard reads “81:00” and no score, signifying that the photo took place before the game started.

The original photo was posted onto X, formerly Twitter, at 6:13 p.m. ET – the game did not kick off until 7:30 p.m.

X user @aphaenke tweeted the photo.

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— Alexander Haenke (@aphaenke) October 21, 2023

He also revealed the question was “Which country was Hitler born in?”, adding: “I tried to catch the question but missed it. I’m not saying it’s the end of the world or anything but you can’t have Hitler on your pregame scoreboard.”

Another post on X said that the scoreboard was playing a trivia video from YouTube titled “General Knowledge Trivia Quiz (Part 18)” from The Quiz Channel.

Hitler was the architect of Nazi Germany during the Holocaust, which killed roughly 6 million Jews in the early 1940s. He was the dictator of Germany from 1933 until he took his own life 12 years later.

Michigan State apologised for the incident.

“MSU is aware that inappropriate content by a third-party source was displayed on the video board prior to the start of tonight’s football game,” Michigan State spokesman Matt Larson said.

“We are deeply sorry for the content that was displayed, as this is not representative of our institutional values. MSU will not be using the third-party source going forward and will implement stronger screening and approval procedures for all video-board content in the future.”

The pregame quiz provides content well before games on video boards.

The night got even worse for Michigan State as Michigan in state rivals Michigan won 49-0, a year after the Spartans roughed up their rivals following last year’s loss and were suspended.

This story first appeared on Fox News and was republished with permission.

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