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F1 boss Ecclestone praises Hitler

Updated on 04 July 2009

By Sue Turton

Dangerous, frightening, eccentric, just three of the printable reactions to comments by formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone praising Adolf Hitler's ability to get things done.

Bernie Ecclestone (picture: Reuters)

In an interview with the Times, Bernie Ecclestone also said that democracy has not benefited Britain and that his motor racing colleague Max Mosley would make a good prime minister.

But it was his comment that the dictator had to be persuaded to do things and might not have known what was going on in Nazi-occupied Europe which has drawn the most anger.

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