Hitler wine probe launched in Italy

9th August, 2012 by Lucy Shaw

Italian prosecutors have opened an investigation into sales of wine with Nazi leader Adolf Hitler on the label.

Hitler wine

They were alerted to the wines after Philadelphia lawyer Matthew Hirsch came across the bottles in a small supermarket in the northern town of Garda while on holiday with his wife, according to Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.

One of the bottles features Hitler performing the Nazi salute, another the dictator alongside the words Mein Kampf, meaning “my struggle” in German, and a third depicting Hitler posing with a manipulated photo of the late Pope John Paul II.

Hirsch struck upon the bottles with his wife Cindy, whose aunt and grandparents died in Auschwitz and father is a Holocaust survivor.

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4 Responses to “Hitler wine probe launched in Italy”

Cook says:

August 11, 2012 at 7:50 am

It may or may not be a violation of Italian law; I’m not a laywer and I don’t even play one on TV. What I do know is that this is in exceedingly poor taste, horribly poor taste. I have to wonder about the producer’s or distributor’s motivations. Do they seriously believe that this is good marketing? Even if this was a re-labeled bottle of one Italy’s grandest wines, I would not buy or serve it under any circumstances. It is disgusting! Sort of like cutting two-buck-chuck with kerosine.

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Brenda Cipriani Fegley says:

August 19, 2012 at 5:15 pm

I’m an Italian American Jew and very proud of my heritage.
These bottles are an insult to Italians/Jews world wide and to all who suffered during WW2.
I can’t believe that there is a market for this !

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Brenda Cipriani Fegley says:

August 19, 2012 at 5:18 pm

I forgot to add that I totally agree with Cook’s comment.

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JOÃO OLIVEIRA says:

August 22, 2012 at 12:12 am

Politicamente incorreto e com intenção clara de chocar.

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