Visual Advertisements Featuring Hitler
Charisma is an immense force whose impact can continue even after a person's death. That is also one way to assess several advertising companies' decision to use Hitler's image in their advertisements. Naturally, these advertisements did not go unnoticed and even raised a wave of indignation and protest in certain sections of society. Demands were made to ban, replace or airbrush them. Here are some of them - judge for yourselves!
Charisma is an immense force whose impact can continue even after a person's death. That is also one way to assess several advertising companies' decision to use Hitler's image in their advertisements. Naturally, these advertisements did not go unnoticed and even raised a wave of indignation and protest in certain sections of society. Demands were made to ban, replace or airbrush them. Here are some of them - judge for yourselves!
An outdoor advertisement in the Bulgarian city of Sofia in April 2009 featuring an enlarged reproduction of a postage stamp with the slogan "They speak, you listen!"
In New Zealand in 2007, a pizza advertisement poster featured Hitler's image and his quote: "It is possible to make people believe that heaven is HELL."
An advertising poster in Brazil with a portrait of Hitler composed of cigarettes.
A condom advertisement for the online pharmacy Doc Morris in Germany.
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