Update (Nov. 24, 2:20 P.M.): Amazon is pulling the offending ads from subway cars. An M.T.A. spokesperson told Variety this morning, “Amazon has just decided to pull the ads.” There is no word yet on when exactly the ads will be removed.

Amazon’s intriguing new series The Man in the High Castle imagines an alternate history in which the Axis powers won World War II and America is divided under Japanese and German rule. This is a bigger-budget, higher-concept project than really anything Amazon Studios has done before, so naturally the streaming service wants to promote its exciting product in a splashy way. Y’know, by putting Nazi imagery on New York City subway cars. Yikes.

S-train interiors are currently decorated half in Japanese rising-sun flags and half in Nazi eagles and iron crosses, a look that has some commuters feeling, well, distressed. Venerable New York news blog Gothamist quotes one angry subway rider as saying, “I chose to sit on the Nazi insignia because I really didn’t want to stare at it.” That’s a strange decision to have to make while heading to work on a Monday morning.

We can certainly understand commuters’ discomfort with Nazi imagery, and symbols of the plenty aggressive Japanese empire, filling a subway car. Honestly, it’s a bit boggling that this was ever approved by Amazon, or the M.T.A. Perhaps the thinking was, “as long as it’s not swastikas”? Whatever the case, the campaign, which is scheduled to run until the middle of next month, was certainly more than a little mishandled in the sensitivity department.

We’re not sure if any part of Godwin’s Law involves subway cars, but if so, he’s been proven right once again. It always leads to Nazis, doesn’t it.