Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Hitler Wine Bottles in Italy Seen as "Offensive;" Viewed as Lack of Italian Sympathy toward Jews

Wine bottles featuring Adolf Hitler on the label have been called "offensive" after complaints from U.S. tourists in the Italian city of Garda, the Telegraph (British) website reports today (August 8, 2012).

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," Hirsch said today. "We would think of it as neo-Nazism. It makes you wonder about the sympathies of the local people."

Prosecutor Mario Giulio Schinaia said, "The only crime that could be currently attributable to this is that of apologizing for fascism. At this point though it would be opportune to invent the crime of human stupidity."

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