Hitler Fashion Billboards Outrage Italians
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu Follow Israel news on and . Italians are furious over an image of a pink-clad Adolf Hitler on billboards promoting a fashion campaign in Sicily, Italy, where World War II partisans fought fascism. One giant picture of Hitler shows the architect of the plan to exterminate Jews with a heart on the same place on his arm where a swastika band was worn. The slogan on the billboard states, "Change Your Style. Don't Follow Your Leader." The promotion campaign also will soon place Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong on billboards. The advertising agency behind the campaign said the message was misunderstood and that the idea was to ridicule the Nazi dictator and not to make his war crimes seem unimportant. The intention was to "incite young people to follow their own style and not to be conditioned by leaders,” ad agency director Daniele Manno told Italian media Ottavio Terranova, the leader of the local Partisans Association, sta...