Italian Supermarket Attacked for ‘selling offensive wine bottles with Hitler on the label’

[Carnage2323]

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[quote]A woman whose relatives died in Auschwitz says she was shocked to discover wine bottles featuring images of Hitler in an Italian supermarket.

Cindy Hirsch from Philadelphia, U.S. was holidaying with her husband Michael in Garda, northern Italy, when the couple spotted the wine bottle labels featuring pictures of the former Nazi leader.

One of the bottles being sold in a supermarket near their hotel was called 'Mein Kampf' after the right-wing dictator's famous book, another was called 'Ein volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer' (one people, one empire, one Fuhrer).
Other labels depicted Hitler in different poses including one in which he is shown making the Nazi salute. Another bottle featured an image of Pope John Paul II.

Other labels depicted Hitler in different poses including one in which he is shown making the Nazi salute. Another bottle featured an image of Pope John Paul II.

Mrs Hirsch's father was born in Czechoslovakia and is an Auschwitz survivor, however her grandparents, aunt and other relatives died at the concentration camp.

According to the Daily Telegraph Mrs Hirsch said: 'It is not only an affront to Jews, even if my husband and I are Jewish. It is an affront to humanity as a whole'.

Mr Hirsch added: 'It is very shocking and startling to us.

'We would think of it as neo-Nazism. It makes you wonder about the sympathies of the local people.'

An inquiry has been opened into the sale of the wine bottles which have been available for a number years.

The Italian integration minister Andrea Riccardi said: 'I want to reassure our American friends who visit our country that our Constitution and our culture rejects racism, anti-Semitism and Nazi fascism.

'This offends the memory of millions of people and risks compromising the image of Italy abroad.'

Mr Hirsch said he complained to a shop assistant after noticing the bottles in a supermarket.

He said the worker replied: 'He told me 'It's just history, like Mussolini like Che Guevara.' I put the bottle down on the counter and left the store.'

Prosecutor Mario Giulio Schinaia told news agency ANSA that inquiries were under way.

He said: 'The only crime that could be currently attributable to this is that of apologizing for fascism,' prosecutor Mario Giulio Schinaia told Ansa.

'At this point though it would be opportune to invent the crime of human stupidity'.

Italy made the act of apologizing for fascism a crime in 1952.[/quote]
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[Ray-The-Sun]

See, that's how you make brand recognition. Just say "Look for the one with the crazed dictator on the bottle!"

[TGiFallen]

Woman overreacted and the store worker was right. But also it's the Daily Mail so take it with a lot more than a grain of salt.

[jakedog]

[QUOTE]The Italian integration minister Andrea Riccardi said: 'I want to reassure our American friends who visit our country that our Constitution and our culture rejects racism, anti-Semitism and Nazi fascism.[/QUOTE]

I'm pretty sure that 90% of American tourists don't give that much of a shit about a type of wine

Also America doesn't reject racism so.........

[Fatman55]

I'd buy one just to have it. :v:

[Nikota]

The purest wine, for the purest people.

[Awesomecaek]

Would buy.

[itisjuly]

No Stalin wine? Pff

[A B.A. Survivor]

[QUOTE=jakedog;37157881]I'm pretty sure that 90% of American tourists don't give that much of a shit about a type of wine

Also America doesn't reject racism so.........[/QUOTE]

You say that like every American is racist.

[DireAvenger]

People get over major and traumatic events by joking about it and looking back on the events in a brighter eye.

[quote]'We would think of it as neo-Nazism. It makes you wonder about the sympathies of the local people.'[/quote]

It's this kind of attitude that only makes things worse.

[Carnage2323]

[QUOTE=itisjuly;37157988]No Stalin wine? Pff[/QUOTE]

Here you go

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[asteroidrules]

"Ein volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer"? Yeah, that does sound suspiciously neo-nazi.

[itisjuly]

[QUOTE=Carnage2323;37158023]Here you go

[img]http://static.flickr.com/118/254088127_0fc14b9d21.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
The bike one doesn't seem to fit in

[Carnage2323]

[QUOTE=itisjuly;37158094]The bike one doesn't seem to fit in[/QUOTE]

Motorcycles for everyone!

[Snek]

[QUOTE=itisjuly;37158094]The bike one doesn't seem to fit in[/QUOTE]

it's next to che

guevara spent spent a few months touring around south america on a motorcycle and later went on to write [I]The Motorcycle Diaries[/I]

[DeeCeeTeeBee]

if i saw wine with pictures of hitler on, i'd be pretty fuhrious

[itisjuly]

[QUOTE=DeeCeeTeeBee;37158296]if i saw wine with pictures of hitler on, i'd be pretty fuhrious[/QUOTE]
This is the wurst design ever.

[Ray-The-Sun]

[QUOTE=itisjuly;37157988]No Stalin wine? Pff[/QUOTE]
Will [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leninade"]Leninade[/URL] do?
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/69/Leninade.png[/t]

And while we're at it, Not See Kola. It's exactly the same as Crystal Pepsi!
[t]http://www.bluedogbeverages.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/notseekolabd.jpg[/t]

[Aphtonites]

She did nazi that coming.

[.FLAP.JACK.DAN.]

[QUOTE=jakedog;37157881]I'm pretty sure that 90% of American tourists don't give that much of a shit about a type of wine

Also America doesn't reject racism so.........[/QUOTE]

You have been making some really bad posts this week, what is the matter with you man?

[Aman VII]

[QUOTE=asteroidrules;37158051]"Ein volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer"? Yeah, that does sound suspiciously neo-nazi.[/QUOTE]

Or it's just a quote...

[DarkSiper]

eh.. seems to me they just put a bunch of historical and "famous" controversial figures on the bottles, I don't see why anyone should take it in a wrong way that some of their bottles come with a hitler image..

[Indyclone77]

I hear its got a very strong white taste

[Unkle Dada]

[QUOTE=DeeCeeTeeBee;37158296]if i saw wine with pictures of hitler on, i'd be pretty fuhrious[/QUOTE]

Oh jew, did nazi that coming, Anne Frankly, etc.

[ExplodingGuy]

I heard it tastes walthered down.

[NoDachi]

[QUOTE=ExplodingGuy;37158715]I heard it tastes walthered down.[/QUOTE]

For every problem there is a Final Solution.

(Solution as in a homogeneous mixture of wine)

[DemonDog]

[QUOTE=Ray-The-Sun;37157854]See, that's how you make brand recognition. Just say "Look for the one with the crazed dictator on the bottle!"[/QUOTE]

"Yeah Hitler's pretty nice but I prefer a nice chilled Mussolini myself."

[NoDachi]

[QUOTE=DemonDog;37158863]"Yeah Hitler's pretty nice but I prefer a nice chilled Mussolini myself."[/QUOTE]

nar mate, smoke some pol pot

[Muukkis]

[QUOTE=DireAvenger;37158018]It's this kind of attitude that only makes things worse.[/QUOTE]

Very true. I don't expect Holocaust victims to ever "get over" it nor would I expect Pol Pot's victims have a laugh about the Khmer Rouge either but overreacting to these kind of things only serves to give more power to the symbols of the past.

[NoDachi]

[QUOTE=Muukkis;37158917]Khmer Rouge[/QUOTE]

Brilliant wine name right here