HK's history of Holocaust howlers
THE T-shirt controversy is the latest in a string of cases in which Hong Kong has given short shrift to the horrors of the Holocaust.
Tasteless advertising promotions using images of Adolf Hitler have been followed by public anger at the sale of Nazi memorabilia and war figurines.
In April last year, the mass-circulation Apple Daily was forced to apologise to the Jewish community after a public outcry over a report about Germany's chances at the football World Cup. A uniformed Hitler and the swastika had appeared in the paper with accompanying words saying the team's top players had inherited the intelligent and unyielding character of the German people.
In mid-1996, Jewish community leaders expressed outrage that a hobby shop specialising in Hitler memorabilia was selling life-size Hitler posters, model machineguns, old German uniforms and swastika flags in Causeway Bay.
A similar controversy arose just two months ago when a Hong Kong company was found to be producing models of infamous Nazi SS officers as part of its World War II figurine range.
And in 1994, ATV sparked anger when it placed advertisements in several local newspapers suggesting that effective advertising on the network could have helped Hitler bring about his 'final solution'.
