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[Mr.Bateman]

Hitler wirbt für Regierungspartei

Weil er klar seine Meinung gesagt habe, wählte die taiwanische Regierungspartei DDP Adolf Hitler als Protagonist eines TV-Spots aus - gemeinsam mit John F. Kennedy und Fidel Castro. Bei der Bevölkerung stieß die Partei damit jedoch auf Empörung.



Hitler auf chinesisch: Werbespot in Taiwan

Taipeh - Ein NS-Propagandafilm war die Vorlage. Zehn Sekunden lang sieht das taiwanische Publikum dieser Tage Adolf Hitler auf dem Fernsehschirm wild gestikulieren. Es ist jedoch kein Dokumentarfilm, der da läuft, sondern ein Werbespot. Die regierende Demokratische Fortschrittspartei (DDP) schaltete die Werbung, in der von Hitlers "Auftritt" zu Reden des amerikanischen Präsidenten John F. Kennedy, des kubanischen Staatschefs Fidel Castro und des taiwanischen Ex-Präsidenten Lee Tang-hui übergeblendet wird.
Die Aktion stieß freilich auf breites Entsetzen in der Bevölkerung. Der Leiter des israelischen Wirtschafts- und Kulturbüros, Menasche Sipori, bezeichnete den Werbefilm als Beleidigung für die Menschheit. Ignoranz sei keine Entschuldigung: "Ich kann nicht glauben, dass eine demokratische Gesellschaft wie Taiwan ein Monster wie Hitler bewundern könnte", sagte er.

Der Direktor der Jugendabteilung der Partei, Juan Chao-hsiung, hält die Aufregung jedoch für übertrieben. Der TV-Spot sei lediglich als Aufruf an die Jugend gedacht, ihre Ansichten mit der Partei zu teilen. Hitler sei mit ausgewählt worden, weil er klar seine Meinung gesagt habe. Das hieße natürlich nicht, dass die DDP seine Anschauungen teile.



http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,144729,00.html

[OS@Turbine]

kann man sich den auch runterladen....supack !....

[Loewenzahn]

Mehr desselben

Es ist schon erstaunlich, wie wenig Gedanken man sich in Taiwan über die Geschichte macht. Hinzuzufügen ist, dass Taiwan während des II. Weltkriegs von den Japanern besetzt war, die sich nicht eben `gentlemanlike` verhielten.

Aber nach dem Krieg kam bekanntlicherweise die von Mao vertriebene Kuomintang und richtete ebenfalls ein Massaker unter der Intelligenz des Landes an.

mfg loewe


Quelle: Taipei Times, 23. 11., 1999

`Hitler` heater ads draw fire from all quarters
ADVERTISING: A promotional campaign for German-made DBK space heaters featuring an image of Hitler has sparked outrage from both German and Israeli trade and culture officials in Taipei


"We decided to use Hitler because as soon as you see him, you think of Germany. It leaves a deep impression."

Shen Yu-shan, of K.E. and Kingstone which designed the advertisement


AP WITH STAFF WRITER


A Taiwanese company has provoked an angry response because of an advertising campaign using large subway billboards featuring a cartoon figure of a smiling Adolf Hitler. The advertisements are for German-made electric space heaters.

Israeli and German culture and trade officials in Taipei said yesterday they were appalled by the ad.

The maker of the space heaters, DBK, based in the southwest German city of Kandel, said it would order an immediate halt to the campaign.

The ad shows Hitler in a khaki uniform and black jackboots, his right arm raised high in a Nazi salute. Above him is a slogan that says "Declare war on the cold front!"

There are no swastikas in the ad, but the Hitler figure wears a red arm band on his left arm with a white circle bearing the German manufacturer`s name.

Shen Yu-shan (¨H¬R¬À) of the K.E. and Kingstone trading company, which sells the German heaters in Taiwan, said the company designed the ad campaign, which began this month.

"We decided to use Hitler because as soon as you see him, you think of Germany. It leaves a deep impression," said Shen, who works in the company`s planning and design department.

Shen said the company had not been worried that the public would have a negative reaction to an ad that features a man who oversaw the killing of millions of Jews during World War II.

"Most people in Taiwan are not that sensitive about Hitler," she said.

Shen could not say whether the German firm had been informed about the contents of the ad.

"As always, we do our promotion planning independently and we report what we have done to DBK afterwards," she said in a press statement.

At DBK headquarters in Kandel, executive director Hans-Hermann Alfers said the company had first heard about the ad on Friday.

Alfers said the company`s managers were not immediately sure who was behind the ad, but they will order an immediate stop to the campaign.

Uri Gutman of the Israel Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei said the advertisement was "unbelievable."

He feared using Hitler`s image in such ads would make Nazi atrocities during World War II seem less real.

"It supports the denial of the Holocaust," said Gutman, referring to fringe theories that the Nazis did not kill Jews.

German officials in Taiwan also objected to the ad.

"We are not happy about this, this is not an appropriate way to make an advertisement," said Dr Hilmar Kaht, director general of the German Trade Office in Taipei , yesterday.

Kaht said while the intention of the ad is to tell consumers that the space heater is a German product, which he does not object to, he added that: "They should not use any political advertisement, especially not from Nazi times ... It creates a negative image of Germany and legitimizes the crimes of the Nazi regime by playing it down."

"Such an ad would be forbidden in Germany," Kaht said.

Patricia Kortmann of the German Cultural Center in Taipei was dismayed by the ad and doubted a German firm would approve it.

"It sounds too absurd to me that a German company would agree to such an advertising strategy," Kortmann said.

Johannes Goeth of the German Trade Office in Taipei also doubted that the manufacturer knew about the ad beforehand. He said the trade office faxed DBK a letter two weeks ago telling it about the ad but had yet to receive a reply.

Both Kortmann and Goeth said the advertisement didn`t surprise them because they often encounter Taiwanese who admire Hitler and lack a deep understanding of European history.

"Taxi drivers will often tell me Hitler was a great man, very strong," Goeth said.

[Heizkessel]

Tja, andere Länder, andere Sitten. Ich habe mal in Kairo an einem Basarstand ein Buch mit den "100 größten Philosophen des 20.Jhr" gefunden. "Ausgezeichnet" waren dort neben Stalin, Heidegger und Castro eben auch... Adolf Hitler.


Gruß
H.