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Umbro to rename ‘holocaust’ trainer internationally

02/09/2002

Umbro, the sportswear manufacturer, has apologised for using the name ‘Zyklon’- the gas used by the Nazis in the death camps during World War II- for a line of its running shoes launched in 1999. Currently, it has removed the name from the product in the UK only.

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