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Google Maps edit of Berlin plaza (to "Adolf-Hitler-Platz") approved; Google apologizes (EUEUEUEUEU)

Posted by Olog-hai on Sat Jan 11 14:31:57 2014, in response to EUEUEUEUEU Olog, posted by RockParkMan on Sat Nov 12 14:58:17 2011.

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Google apologizes after Berlin street is accidentally renamed after Adolf Hitler on its maps service

• Theodor-Heuss-Platz renamed Adolf-Hitler-Platz, its Nazi era name
• Google apologized for the 'mistake' — which was online for a few hours

By LIZZIE EDMONDS
PUBLISHED: 20:48 EST, 10 January 2014 | UPDATED: 20:48 EST, 10 January 2014

Google has apologized after its mapping service renamed a road in Berlin after Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

The intersection, usually called Theodor-Heuss-Platz, temporarily regained its Nazi-era name — Adolf-Hitler-Platz.

The area carried Hitler's name after he came to power in 1933 until the end of the Second World War.

Previously, it was known as Reichskanzlerplatz and in 1963 it was renamed after Theodor Heuss — the country's first president.

Local media reported the mistake remained on Google Maps for a couple of hours.

Google spokeswoman Lena Wagner said Friday the company quickly took down the name after the error was discovered.

Google says it's not clear how the error occurred, but that 'we apologize for this mistake.'

Scores of streets and squares were named after Hitler during his 1933-1945 dictatorship.

The intersection in question, in western Berlin, sits on what the Nazis envisioned as the capital's main east-west axis for a redesign of the city that was never completed.

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