Thursday, April 14, 2011

COMMENTARY: Holocaust Group in Austria Should Ignore Cakes with Nazi Symbols

Last week, a Holocaust awareness group -- called the Mauthausen Committee -- filed a criminal complaint against a pastry maker who owns a bakery in a suburb of Vienna, Austria.

The bakery sells cakes that are decorated with swastikas and other Nazi-era symbols, including an arm of a child raised in a Hitler salute.

The owner of the bakery, Manfred Klaschka, defended his Nazi symbols on cakes, saying, "If it's requested, it's made."

These cakes with Nazi symbols are not cheap -- they sell for an average of $128 apiece -- and are made specifically for people who order them.

Although the cakes themselves are not on display in the bakery window, a catalogue containing photographs of the designs is available for customers to see.

This appears to be a weak case of anti-Semitism for the Holocaust group to prove. The fact is that the baker is only baking cakes for customers who order them, in order to earn a living. The baker is not a Nazi.

The Holocaust group needs to ignore this comedic situation -- the cakes are only made with various symbols in order to entertain their buyers -- and concentrate its efforts on more serious issues -- issues provoked by real anti-Semitic current-day Nazi thugs.

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