A Taiwanese company is using large subway advertisements that feature a cartoon of a smiling Hitler to sell German-made electric space heaters. After Israeli and German trade officials in the capital of Taipei said they were appalled by the ad, the maker of the space heaters, DBK, based in the southwest German city of Kandel, said it would terminate the ad campaign.
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