9th August, 2012 by Lucy Shaw
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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.
“I was shocked. It is….
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