People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is showing its controversial "Holocaust on Your Plate" exhibit throughout Europe, and stopped Thursday in Stuttgart, Germany, the same day the court order was granted to Germany's Central Council of Jews.
A spokesman for PETA in Germany said the group's plans to display the full exhibit in a public square in Stuttgart were thwarted when a public prosecutor threatened to confiscate the posters.
"We decided then to show a picture that didn't have a direct comparison," Harald Ullmann said. That poster showed a picture of a calf with a quote from a German philosopher about Auschwitz.
One of the posters not shown juxtaposes racks of emaciated concentration camp victims with lines of chickens in cages.
The exhibit is not scheduled to be shown again in Germany, Ullmann said.
"Holocaust on Your Plate" has riled Jews in the United States and elsewhere since its inception in 2003, with Jewish leaders lambasting PETA for mining the Holocaust for shock value and denigrating the memories of Holocaust victims.
Campaign coordinator Matt Prescott, who is Jewish, called the Central Council of Jews' decision to get a court order "pathetic ... for an organization that's supposed to be dedicated to teaching about the Holocaust."
"It's sad that they are acting as supremacists and seeking to silence PETA for taking steps to break down the barriers that cause violence," he said.
