Out of place

Place names present a challenge to those of us who work with words for a living. In English, we often have names for places that differ from the names used by the people who actually live there - and there are are some people who believe we should speak and write like the locals. Until now, I wouldn't have thought the folks at the British Daily Mail were among them. I'm assuming, then, that whoever handled this picture didn't know that Munchen (which really should carry an umlaut on the U) is better known to English readers as Munich.

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