An Italian winemaker has been selling Hitler-themed bottles of wine for more than 25 years. He told Vice World News that the Hitler labels are not political and are for customers looking to “remember” history. The Hitler range of wine bottles will be discontinued, the winemaker said, but not until next year. An Italian winemaker, whose company has been selling bottles of wines with photographs of Adolf Hitler and Nazi slogans for over 25 years, has defended the controversial products in an interview with Vice World News. The bottles of wine are branded with photographs of the genocidal dictator and Nazi slogans such as “Blut und Ehre” (“Blood and Honor”), “Sieg Heil” (“Hail Victory”), and “Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer” (“One People, One Realm, One Leader”). The products are banned in Germany and Austria due to laws prohibiting the display of Nazy symbols but are sold online, and in more than 50 Italian stores, Vice World News reported. Recent media coverage in Germany of the bottles sparked outrage. Representatives of Jewish communities have also expressed horror. Rabbi Abraham Cooper, director of global social action at The Simon Wiesenthal Centre, told Vice World News that the products are a “celebration of evil and genocide.” Nonetheless, Andrea Lunardelli of Vini Lunardelli told the media outlet that the products are not “political,” adding that there’s a lot of demand for them.
via business insider: Winemaker defends selling Hitler-branded bottles of wine, claiming customers want to ‘remember’ history