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Fury over Hitler in crisp ad

Tuesday 02 June 1998 23:02 BST
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ISRAELI diplomats held firm yesterday that commercials using images of Hitler to sell potato crisps should be pulled off Thai television and an apology is not enough.

Leo Burnett Bangkok, the Thai branch of the Chicago-based ad agency, has apologised for producing the adverts which depict Hitler giving a Nazi salute and cuts to a woman who casts a voodoo spell on him as he eats the crisps, hoping to change his evil ways.

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