Taiwan pull TV ad featuring Hitler

Taiwan's ruling party has agreed to pull a television advertising campaign which includes an image of Adolf Hitler.

The move follows complaints from Jewish groups about the advert aimed at encouraging young people to share their ideas with the Democratic Progressive Party.

The organisation said it will stop airing the commercial on July 20 "out of respect for the Holocaust victims" and "to avoid further misinterpretations".

The advert opens with footage of Hitler taken from a Nazi propaganda film to illustrate someone who "dared to speak his own mind".

It is followed by clips of other famous world leaders including US President John F Kennedy and Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

Menashe Zipori, director of the Israel Economic and Cultural Office in Taiwan, called the advert "a monstrosity".