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Adolf Hitler sex video condemned by Aids charities

The provocative commercial, which ends with the tag-line "AIDS is a mass murder", aims to young scare people into using condoms by associating the deadly disease with the German dictator.

In the highly-sexualised clip, a couple undress and begin to make love in a dimly-lit bedroom.

But what appears to be a typical, if steamy, advert for perfume or underwear takes a macabre twist when the camera pans to man's face at the moment of climax - revealing him to be Adolf Hitler.

Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)