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| Tuesday, September 09, 2003 |
German whines about Nazi wines: Italy has gotten a reputation for stirring up the European pot of late, with government ministers taking pot shots at German leaders and what-not, but putting out Nazi wine? Believe it or not, a new line of Italian wines depicts Nazi figures like Hitler and Goering alongside slogans such as "Sieg Hiel!" The makers of the wine have admitted the product is meant for the German market, and that's prompted the German Justice Minister to ask the Italian government to intervene.
As weird as all of this may be, nothing beats the explanation from the wine manufacturers: "[they're meant to] remind us of the lives of celebrated personages of Italian and world political history such as Che Guevara, Churchill...Hitler, Marx, Mussolini, Napoleon." Celebrated personages?
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