April 5, 2008

Cosmetics firm 'insults Holocaust victims with Nazi-inspired advert'

An anti-Semitism watchdog has called for a cosmetics company in South Korea to halt an advertising campaign that it said used Nazi imagery to promote a skin lotion.

The television advert for Coreana Cosmetics shows a model, right, in military garb with a soldier's cap that appears to carry Nazi insignia. The slogan: “Even Hitler didn't have the East and West” has been changed to “No one has ever had the East and the West”, but the Simon Wiesenthal Centre said that the advert was still an insult to Holocaust victims. The company behind the advert said it was meant to imply that the lotion could succeed in both East and West, which Hitler had failed to do. (AP)

Cosmetics firm 'insults Holocaust victims with Nazi-inspired advert' - Times Online

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