Former East German skater Katarina Witt may be as easy on the eye as she is hard on the ice, but her new venture, hosting a TV show on the brighter side of the dictatorship under which she once flourished is in, to put it mildly, very poor taste. The London Independent picks up the story:

“During the four-part series, she will interview former East German personalities but avoid politics. “It is an entertainment show,” Ms Witt said. “It is time to show we also had fun in the German Democratic Republic.” To drive home the publicity message, the ice-queen sports a blue communist Free German Youth movement shirt.”

[As] Günter Nooke, an eastern German conservative Christian Democrat politician, said: “What would be the reaction in Germany if television produced similar programmes about the Third Reich?”

Quite.