Showing posts with label auschwitz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label auschwitz. Show all posts

Friday, 7 September 2012

Bad advertising: Buchenwald victims used for slimming pills ad


In a case of really poor judgment, an Estonian newspaper published an ad for slimming pills, showing exhausted concentration camp torture victims to portray new, slim bodies.
On the image, published by Eesti Ekspress, a cynical inscription reads, “One, Two, Three… Dr Mengele slimming pills work wonders for you!” And underneath: “There were no thickset people in Buchenwald!” ... read more.

Wednesday, 18 July 2012

Most wanted 97-year-old Nazi war criminal arrested in Hungary


Ladislaus Csizsik-Csatary, 97, sent 15,700 Jews to Auschwitz in 1941, while employed as a police commander in a Slovakian Ghetto. Now he has finally been caught.
Apparently Csatary fled to Canada with a new identity after being sentenced to death for his war crimes. His identity was once again revealed, and he has been on the run for the last fifteen years... read more.