Story highlights The Metropolitan Transit Authority says Amazon has decided to pull the ads

Critics said the agency was hypocritical for allowing the ads to begin with

(CNN) Amazon has decided to take down New York subway advertisements for its streaming series "The Man in the High Castle" amid complaints about the use of symbols similar to those used by Germany and Japan during World War II.

Metropolitan Transit Authority spokesman Kevin Ortiz said Tuesday that Amazon had decided to end the promotion, which includes seat wraps on one train and 260 subway station posters.

Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The ads promote a new series that depicts an alternate reality in which Germany and Japan won World War II and occupy parts of the United States.

The advertisements featured a refashioned American flag with Nazi Germany's imperial eagle as well as symbols incorporating elements of the Japanese rising sun.

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