Should Have Been Von Rumsfeld

Safe-sex ad featuring Hitler stirs German anger

"BERLIN (AP) - A German AIDS awareness group has come under fire for posting an online video that starts off with a young couple having sex in an apartment before revealing the male to be a grinning Adolf Hitler.
Its closing message: "AIDS is a mass murderer."
On Tuesday, a prominent German Jewish group and AIDS prevention advocates demanded the ad be withdrawn.
"It is disgusting and we're asking the producers of the campaign to pull it back," said Joerg Litwinschuh of German AIDS Assistance, an awareness group.
He said the ad, commissioned by Regenbogen, German for rainbow, seemed designed for little more than shock value and was offensive to people who have HIV.
"We denounce this ad. I can say that absolutely," said Volker Mertens, a spokesman for another group, the German AIDS Foundation.
Stephan Kramer, general secretary of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, issued a statement calling the ad "a defamation and mockery" of Holocaust victims."


I don't understand the opposition to this at all. Do the AIDS awareness people think all immune deficiency sufferers are going to be looked at as Hitlers? And what's the problem for the jewish central council? Don't they wave Hitler and the nazis in our faces every chance they get? Or perhaps they think they have Hitler monopolized?