Thursday, February 10, 2011

India Has This Thing for Hitler

The ad is here (I won't reproduce it).

McCann World Work Group is responsible.

The company that advertised itself through the use of Hitler (ימ"ש) is Onida, anti-reflection glass, used in their LCD TVs.

He's been used in other countries before.  And here.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I once blogged about India and Hitler, contrasting this http://ia.rediff.com/www/news/2009/may/24hitler-as-management-guru-in-india-sparks-row.htm:

An article in London's Daily Telegraph last month reported that sales of Mein Kampf 'are soaring in India where business students regard the genocidal dictator (Hitler) as a management guru' and consider the book to be a 'management guide.'

"Anyone seeking to teach tomorrow's business leaders of India should reject globalisation of hate and racism, not facilitating it," said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, a leading Jewish NGO at the United Nations.

"Using Mein Kampf as a self-improvement and strategy guide for India's young is an outrage that dishonours six million Jews murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Adolf Hitler's murderous Third Reich. Honouring and promoting Hitler's white racist ideology mocks the values of the world's largest democracy, and flies in the face of India's noble history of protecting minority peoples, Jews among them" he added.

with this http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3696887,00.html:

Study on behalf of Foreign Ministry ranks India, US as most pro-Israel countries

The greatest level of sympathy towards Israel can be found in India, according to international study on behalf of the Foreign Ministry, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Friday.

According to the study, which was unprecedented in scope and was undertaken by an international market research company, 58% of Indian respondents showed sympathy to the Jewish State. The United States came in second, with 56% of American respondents sympathizing with Israel.

Go figure--because I can't.

Bennett