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Thursday, August 9, 2012

Hitler attacked in Italy



Free Enterprise Attacked  -  Wine with Hitler's photo seized by the Italian government (but Mussolini & Stalin wine is OK)
  • A business is assaulted and their product stolen by Big Government.
  • If any product was to be pulled from the shelves it should have been the Jimmy Carter wine.


It would not be a day on the Internet without a Hitler reference.  So here we go.

A prosecutor in Bolzano, northern Italy seized wine bottle labels bearing a portrait of Hitler and other Nazis from a winery near the Austrian border, the company said.

The 20 labels from the "Der Fuehrer" line show Hitler raising the Nazi salute and his generals, including Hermann Goering, the Reich's economic minister, Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Gestapo, and Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy reports the UK Telegraph.

The black and white labels are imprinted with the mottoes "Ein volk, ein Reich, ein Fuehrer" (one people, one empire, one Fuehrer) and "Sieg heil", a slogan proclaimed by Hitler as a greeting or in front of the masses.

The government claims the labels constitute a glorification of the perpetrators of crimes against humanity, according to state prosecutor Cuno Tarfusser.

The Lunardelli company said it had sold around 20,000 bottles featuring the Hitler labels per year. It also sold wine with images of Mussolini on the label, which were not seized by police.

This product has been around since 1995.  I will bet cash money that this hack prosecutor is simply attacking an honest businessman so he can make a name for himself in Italian politics.

In other words, politics as usual.

The bottles make up part of a product line started in 1995 called the "historic collection", selling wine with labels with the faces of:

--- Winston Churchill
--- Antonio Gramsci, an Italian Marxist philosopher
--- Adolph Hitler
--- Karl Marx
--- Napoleon Bonaparte
--- Benito Mussolini
--- Che Guevara.

The line stirred up controversy back in September 2003, when German Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries made an official protest against its sale.

At the time, she claimed that the labels referring to the Third Reich were "abominable and in bad taste."    (UK Telegraph)








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