IP: Taiwan ad uses cartoon Hitler

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> From: "Carter Page" <carter () buildpoint com>
> To: "Farber () Cis Upenn Edu" <farber () cis upenn edu>
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> Dear Lord this is disturbing...
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> http://www.salon.com/media/wire/1999/11/22/hitler/index.html
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> Nov. 22, 1999 | TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Adolf Hitler is one of this century's most
> monstrous figures, but that didn't discourage a Taiwanese company from using
> his image in an advertising campaign for German-made electric space heaters.
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> "We decided to use Hitler because as soon as you see him, you think of
> Germany. It leaves a deep impression," Yu-shan Shen, of the K.E. and
> Kingstone trading firm in Taipei, said Monday.
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> The company's 6-foot-tall subway ads in Taipei feature a smiling caricature
> of the Nazi leader in a khaki uniform and black jackboots, his right arm
> raised high in a salute. Above him is a white space heater and the slogan
> "Declare war on the cold front!"
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> [...]