Article 717NK Pennsylvania artist sorry for including Nazi camp arch on school parade float

Pennsylvania artist sorry for including Nazi camp arch on school parade float

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Richard Luscombe
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I made a mistake' says artist who included cloned archway on Halloween float for a Catholic school

A Pennsylvania artist's efforts to create a Halloween float for a local Catholic school went awry when he inadvertently included a replica of the gateway arch from a Nazi concentration camp, prompting a hasty apology from the diocese of Harrisburg.

In apologizing for the fiasco, Galen Shelly told PennLive that a lighted archway and lanterns he ordered to decorate a parade float he was building for Hanover's St Joseph's school did not arrive in time - so he searched the internet for images of cemetery gates to represent the idea that none of us get out of this life alive".

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