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Polish ice hockey team Unia Oswiecim and organizers of the Champions Hockey League have apologized to German champions Eisbären Berlin for a banner with a Nazi reference during their game on Saturday. “We have accepted the apology,” a spokesperson for the Eisbären told dpa on Sunday. At the start of the game, a banner in the Oswiecim arena made a reference to the Nazi extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, associating the polar bears – the mascot of the Eisbären Berlin – to the Nazi crimes in Poland. During World War II, the Nazi regime killed more than a million people, most of them Jews, in …

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