Blitzkrieg Park

New York Football fans and Jewish groups are outraged over the prospect of the new Giants and Jets stadium being named after German insurer Allianz due to the company’s World War II Nazi ties.

The company’s pro-Nazi activity included insuring the Auschwitz death camp, donating the proceeds from dishonored Jewish life insurance policies to the Nazi party and having an Allianz chief executive serve on Hitler’s cabinet.  Allianz is reportedly on the short list of companies vying for the new Meadowlands stadium sponsorship deal.

The proposed Allianz field would be the first American sports facility named after a company or organization that conducted pro-Nazi activity during World War II.

Oh wait…  No it wouldn’t.

Dark Side doesn’t doubt that New Yorkers are having a hard time stomaching the idea of the pro-Holocaust branding of their stadium, but we have to wonder if it’s the idea of biting Detroit’s style that really drove them over the edge.

For more on this story, visit the New York Daily News.

For more on Ford and GM’s WWI support of the Nazis, visit the Washington Post.