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From: Jane Caplan [mailto:jcaplan@brynmawr.edu]
List Editor: "Imhoof, David" <imhoof@susqu.edu>
Editor's Subject: "Hitler: The Rise of Evil"
Author's Subject: "Hitler: The Rise of Evil"
Date Written: Thursday, May 22, 2003
Date Posted: Fri, 22 May 2003 15:36:29 -0400

In my segment of the CBS market (Philadelphia), the first commercial
break, slotted in just as the war was coming to its (inaccurate) end,
opened with an ad for some kind of disinfectant, run against faint
background music from the Ride of the Valkyries and including the
words, either spoken or on screen, 'Kills all Germs.'
Did anyone else notice this, or did I imagine it? And am I the only
one to have found its multiple resonances stunningly ingenuous?

Jane Caplan

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