The UK Telegraph reports that Wine bottles featuring Adolf Hitler on the label have surfaced in the Italian city of Garda after complaints from US tourists.
Michael Hirsch, a lawyer from Philadelphia, complained to local media after he found a supermarket near his hotel was stocking wine bottles with Hitler in various poses and another bottle featuring an image of Pope John Paul II.
“It is very shocking and startling to us,” Mr Hirsch told The Daily Telegraph on Wednesday. “We would think of it as neo-Nazism It makes you wonder about the sympathies of the local people.”
One bottle features Hitler with his arm raised in the Nazi, another is labelled ‘Mein Kampf” and another was labelled “Ein volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer” (one people, one empire, one Fuhrer), Mr Hirsch said.
Local prosecutors said they have opened an inquiry into the sale of the wine bottles.
“I want to reassure our American friends who visit our country that our Constitution and our culture rejects racism, anti-Semitism and Nazi fascism,” said Andrea Riccardi, the Italian integration minister. “This offends the memory of millions of people and risks compromising the image of Italy abroad.”
As an orthodox Jew i can understand the outrage, but one must admit that it is a collectors item and it probably attracts thousands of people.
I would not automatically think that the people are Nazi sympathizers or anti Semites.
It gives us a little glimpse on the power this animal had and the following he obtained with his hatred.
Yemach Shmo indeed
Looking at the picture and seeing the Pope, i feel bad for the Pope because he does not deserve to be on the same shelf as this devil.