Belgian TV bosses slammed for advert featuring presenter as a semi-naked Hitler
By
Caroline Graham
Last updated at 3:06 PM on 01st December 2008
TV bosses in Belgium have been carpeted over an advert for a travel programme featuring a semi-naked Adolf Hitler.
The show's presenter Tomas de Soete is shown dressed only in pants and a swastika armband giving a Sieg Heil salute in front of a Nazi flag.
The ad, featuring a Belgian TV host caricatured as Hitler, has appeared in print
National broadcaster VRT claims they were trying to expose 'travel cliches' within the tourist industry.
The Hitler picture appeared under the headline: 'Discover the real Europe. Not the cliches.'
Then it went on: 'Test it yourself: This is the first image you'll get to see when you enter "German" in Google.'
VTR finally withdrew the ad after being flooded with complaints.
'It's an outrage that Nazi symbolism can be used to make jokes. They completely missed the point,' said one German viewer.
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This was shooped on Paheal by adding an erect male organ to it. It was also in very bad taste as it was. In but 1 generation we are having an uphill fight to keep the Holocaust in public awareness, classing the Holocaust with evolution fact, as a delusion. "Those who deny history are doomed to repeat it repeat it repeat it repeat it ..."
- Paul R Wilson, Bergenfield NJ, 01/12/2008 16:05