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hitler in pink

A Sicilian fashion store has come under fire for using Adolf Hitler in its latest advertising campaign. The store, called New Form, has erected 18ft-high posters across the city of Palermo showing the Fuhrer sporting a fluorescent pink military uniform, with his swastika armband replaced by a large red heart.

The advertising slogan tells the store’s teenage and twenty-something target market to "Change Style – Don't Follow Your Leader".

City bigwigs have reacted with fury to the campaign, which was created by local ad agency Zerocento. Councillor Rosario Filoramo, who has complained to Palermo's mayor, said: "The use of an image of a person responsible for the worst chapters of the last century is offensive to our country's constitutional principles and to the sensitivities of citizens."

Another council official, Fabrizio Ferrandelli, said: "Having Hitler's face on a poster cannot be passed off as an innocent advertising message."

Zerocento insists the campaign "ridicules" Hitler and that its critics are over-reacting. Agency executive Daniele Manno said the campaign "invites young people to create their own style and not to be influenced by their peers".


Read more: http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/63655,news-comment,news-politics,fashion-store-shocks-with-pink-hitler-posters-italy-palermo#ixzz0ooKLmJpM

Change leader...

LONDON: Huge posters of Adolf Hitler wearing a lurid pink uniform with a love heart, instead of swastika, on his arm band have whipped up a storm in Italy.

The posters, which are 18 feet high, are for a line of clothing for young people and they have been prominently set up in Palermo city.

They show Hitler wearing a bright pink uniform above the slogan "Change Style - Don't Follow Your Leader", The Telegraph reported on Friday.

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shooting hitler...

Hitler will be played by veteran Bollywood actor Anupam Kher, who once played Gandhi on television, while former Miss India Neha Dhupia portrays Eva Braun, whom Hitler married hours before they committed suicide in April 1945.

"Yes I play him. Shoot starts in August," Kher wrote on his Twitter feed while on his way back from last weekend's Indian International Film Academy awards in Sri Lanka.

He asked fans to send him suggestions for books to read on the German leader.

Anil Sharma, the biopic's producer, said it was "an analytical portrayal of the ideologies followed by Hitler".

"We will try to show his fears, insecurities and pressures he faced while taking crucial decisions," Sharma said, adding that though the movie would have some similarities to Downfall it would be an entirely original work.

Sharma said he was still uncertain whether to include any song and dance routines, but ruled out any musical-style routines by Hitler or Braun.

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seine kampf...

Slowly but steadily, a decade-old business around the dead and universally despised dictator Adolf Hitler is emerging as a small-scale industry in India.

Books and memorabilia on the German leader's life have found a steady market in some sections of Indian society where he is idolised and admired, mostly by the young.

The numbers are small but seem to be growing.

Latest reports say Bollywood is now planning to cash in. A film - Dear Friend Hitler - is due to be released by the end of the year, focusing on the dictator's relationship with his mistress Eva Braun.

It's hard to narrow down what makes the dictator popular in India, but some young people say they are attracted by his "discipline and patriotism".

Most of them are, however, quick to add that they do not approve of his racial prejudices and the Holocaust in which millions of Jews were killed.

But the truth is that books, T-shirts, bags and key-rings with his photo or name on do sell in India. And his autobiography, Mein Kampf, sells the most.

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hitler revival...

A notorious Waffen SS division is celebrated with an exhibition of swastikas, Nazi attire and pictures in Lvov, Ukraine, but for some Western journalists, the greater concern is how the Russian media will cover it.

As neo-Nazi extremists prepared to celebrate Adolf Hitler’s birthday on April 20 across Germany, Ukraine’s far-right set up an open-air exhibition in the city of Lvov to mark the 75th anniversary of the formation of the 1st Galician Division, a notoriously cruel SS fighting force made up predominantly of Ukrainian volunteers.

Dressed in Nazi uniforms of the era, local right-wing extremists organized a display of photographs rarely seen in public before. Nazi-made weapons, vehicles, ammunition, and personal items pertaining to the Galician Division were also exhibited. The event, which will run until May 6, was opened as a precursor to a neo-Nazi march which organizers plan to hold on April 28.

READ MORE: German theater investigated over free ‘Mein Kampf’ tickets for swastika wearers

But for some in the Western mainstream media, there’s something more disturbing than a celebration of an SS unit that killed hundreds of Polish civilians in the villages of Huta Pieniacka and Pidkamin in 1944.

“Ukrainians in Lviv [Lvov] celebrate the anniversary of the 14th ‘Galician’ division of the Waffen SS, swastika patches and all,” Alec Luhn, Russia correspondent for The Telegraph, said. According to his website, he has covered Russian topics for the Guardian, Time, Politico, New York Times, and Foreign Policy.

 

Read more:

https://www.rt.com/news/424818-lvov-nazi-galicia-celebration/

 

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