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After shooting themselves at the German Holocaust Memorial for a DVD documenting their journey to Germany, Sir Keir Starmer and David Lammy have found themselves in hot water.
On Thursday and Friday, the Labour leader and Shadow Foreign Secretary paid a two-day visit to Berlin.
While there, Starmer got to know Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Lars Klingbeil, the head of the left-leaning SDP.
The two also went to the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and took videos of themselves within.
The brief presence of the website in the political advertisement, which omitted mentioning it by name, was criticized by the German antisemitic advocacy organization Tikvah Institute.
James Jackson, a freelance journalist, tweeted: “This is a big faux pas in Germany.”
“The Holocaust memorial is meant to be a sad site to memorialize a crime that dwarfs human experience,” said Barney Carroll in a post.
It needs to be treated with the utmost humility. It is thought to be in the worst possible taste to use it for photo ops.
Work Fish continued, “This is completely absurd.” implying seriousness by using the Holocaust Memorial as a prop? horribly inappropriate
Afroze, a user, exclaimed, “Wtf is this msg! What kind of photo of Starmer in front of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin does that caption go with?
‘Blatant electioneering at the expense of holocaust victims??’
On Friday, Sir Keir was photographed alongside the structure that the communist authorities built in 1961 to divide East from West Berlin.
After the two sides of the city were linked the previous year, the majority of the wall was destroyed in 1990.
Sir Keir strolled around the East Side Gallery, a part of the wall decorated with artwork, in casual clothing.
It has a painting by Dmitri Vrubel titled My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love, which shows Erich Honecker, the former leader of East Germany, and Leonid Brezhnev, the then-president of the Soviet Union, sharing a fraternal kiss.
It is said that Starmer and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz talked about Brexit and the economic success of both the UK and Germany during their discussion.
MailOnline has gotten in touch with the Starmer and Lammy offices.