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Last update - 07:26 23/11/2008
Belgian travel show ad features Hitler in stripper costume
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Tags: Hitler, Belgium, VRT 

A Belgian public broadcaster, which recently canceled a cooking show on Adolf Hitler's favorite meal, is now being criticized for promoting a travel show with advertisements featuring Hitler.

The ads, which ran in a nationally circulated magazine associated with the daily De Morgen, caricature television presenter Thomas Desoete, in a stripper costume, sporting a Hitler mustache and a swastika armband.

The show airs on Canvas, a channel belonging to the Flemish broadcaster VRT. The broadcaster's management in Brussels could not be reached for comment.
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Michael Freilich, editor of the Antwerp-based Jewish weekly Joods Actueel, said the new ad shows that VRT is "looking for excuses" to portray Hitler.

"They obviously weren't happy with our response [to the cooking show], so have added Hitler for no obvious reason other than getting attention and angering the Jewish community and the 15,000 Belgian non-Jews who were deported during WWII," Freilich told Haaretz. "The Jewish community is furious. Some are even considering whether they want to live here."

Meanwhile, as reported on VRT, a Belgian court last week fined two Dutchmen - a Hitler look-alike and a far-right politician - 1,100 euros each for making a Nazi salute at a white supremacy event last year.

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      2.   Why don`t Jews learn? 05:00  |  judith 23/11/08
      3.   why not just IGNORE it? 08:02  |  eric 23/11/08
      4.   You can make Mussolini Soup,Stalin Stew,Hitler Hamburgers,all day 08:52  |  Michael 23/11/08
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      7.   Ugh, Haaretz, must you put this picture on the front page? 10:07  |  Matt C 23/11/08
      8.   Can you take this offesive piture off the home page? 10:26  |  Tom 23/11/08
      9.   The Usual Over Reaction 10:47  |  Ronald 23/11/08
      10.   A Belgian respons 11:47  |  Harold 23/11/08
      11.   `travelling show` 11:50  |  Dirk 23/11/08
      12.   Why not... 11:51  |  Brüno 23/11/08
      13.   Dirk is right, Haaretz has it wrong 12:17  |  Mike 23/11/08
      14.   travel show 12:47  |  Ton 23/11/08
      15.   number 7 12:54  |  Dawn 23/11/08
      16.   Belgians and their cartoons 12:55  |  Ahmed 23/11/08
      17.   Couldn`t they have made an ad with "Sauerkraut" or "beer"...??? 13:09  |  Swiss (Dino) 23/11/08
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