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Last update - 13:20 07/09/2009
Hitler look-a-like 'stars' in graphic German AIDS campaign
By Haaretz Service
Tags: AIDS awareness, Israel news 

A graphic image of an Adolf Hitler look-a-like engaged in sex will be the symbol of a German AIDS awareness campaign tagged 'AIDS is a mass murderer.'

"The campaign is designed to shake people up, to bring the topic of AIDS back to centre stage, and to reverse the trend of unprotected sexual intercourse," the Das Commitee advertising agency told the AFP.

"We asked ourselves what face we could give to the virus, and it couldn't be a pretty face," the company's creative director Dirk Silz told AFP.
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The ad, which will be launched next week ahead on television and in cinemas across Germany ahead of AIDS awareness day in December, shows blurred images of a couple engaged in sex, revealing only at the end that the star of the clip is Hitler. The ad can also be viewed at www.aids-is-a-mass-murderer.com.

The campaign will also display explicit sex scenes including look-a-likes of former Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin, and former Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein.

An estimated 30 million people have died of AIDS related diseases throughout the world, almost half the amount of people who died during World War 2.

The ad has already garnered criticism from opponents who claim it could make those infected appear as mass murderers, rather than the disease itself.



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  1.   Hitler like Wotan 00:19  |  Gregor Brand 07/09/09
  2.   AIDS is a bigger threat than Hitler, Stalin and Saddam combined. 00:38  |  Jacob 07/09/09
  3.   I Think That`s Great... 01:09  |  Yosemite 07/09/09
  4.   Words fail 01:52  |  Sherlock Holmes 07/09/09
  5.   Whatever turns you on! 01:54  |  Borat 07/09/09
  6.   observation 02:41  |  potobac 07/09/09
  7.   attention getting, at what price? 08:11  |  peter rouget 07/09/09
  8.   So did we keep it? 08:35  |  Mark Lincoln 07/09/09
  9.   The unintended consequence 08:38  |  Mark Lincoln 07/09/09
  10.   The campaign will also display explicit `sec scenes`...? 09:31  |  Maureen Ann 07/09/09
  11.   Interesting reversal 12:42  |  IW 07/09/09
  12.   Disgusting, sick and takes advertising to gutter... 14:25  |  Mark 07/09/09
  13.   It is important that Kids gets the message that AIDS kills 16:11  |  Chris Linthwaite 07/09/09
  14.   #12, Mark I agree. 16:58  |  christoph 07/09/09
  15.   You`re right Mark (#12) 18:08  |  Morris Valentine 07/09/09
  16.   He`s dead 01:45  |  Rami 08/09/09
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