“We strongly disapprove of (the distributor) showing those images at its facilities, which showed a regime that emphasized hatred and discrimination at a point in history that has fortunately been left behind,” Volkswagen said.

German carmaker Volkswagen announced that it had severed ties with a dealership in the Mexico after it displayed a Nazi poster in its facilities.

A customer photographed the offending image during a visit to the Volkswagen showroom. A photograph of a Nazi rally being addressed by Adolf Hitler was hanging on the wall.

In a statement, Volkswagen’s Mexico unit condemned the images from the salesroom in Mexico’s neighborhood of Coyoacan and stressed its commitment to upholding human dignity.

“We strongly disapprove of (the distributor) showing those images at its facilities, which showed a regime that emphasized hatred and discrimination at a point in history that has fortunately been left behind,” Volkswagen said.

The Simon Wiesenthal Centre had called for the intervention of Volkswagen headquarters in Wolfsburg to demand that Volkswagen Mexico drop all relations with its dealership.

‘’It took less than three hours for the Centre’s Director for International Relations, Shimon Samuels, to receive a message from Robin Aschhoff, Head of International Communications for Volkswagen,’’ the Wiesenthal Centre said.

“We commend Volkswagen Mexico for having reacted rapidly in memory of the victims of Nazi barbarism as a clear message to the world”, said Ariel Gelblung, the Centre’s Latin America Director.