The Ernst Bettler hoax
Posted in twentieth century on 14 January 2008 | No Comments »
In the 1950s a designer called Ernst Bettler was asked to design posters for a Swiss pharmaceuticals company. The company had been involved in testing drugs on prisoners in German concentration camps during the Second World War, and Bettler decided to subvert it from the inside. His posters were innocuous enough on their own, showing [...]
