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Tokyo Olympics opening ceremony director fired for Holocaust joke

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July 22, 2021July 22, 2021News Room

The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee has fired the director of the opening ceremony because of a Holocaust joke he made during a comedy show in 1998

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