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9/12/12

Estonia: `Nazi diet pill` advertisement upsets Jews

An Estonian newspaper has provoked global outrage after it published an advertisement for diet pills, mocking the gaunt and scrawny victims of Buchenwald, Germany's largest death camp.

The astonishing picture of dozens of starving men is accompanied by the strapline: “One, Two, Three… Dr Mengele slimming pills work wonders for you! There were no thickset people in Buchenwald!”

Jewish organisations have denounced Eesti Ekspress for publishing the image, which ran in the paper's humour section.


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