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Nazi-Themed Cafe Reopens in Bandung
The Jakarta Post ^ | Sun, June 22 2014

Posted on 06/24/2014 2:50:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway

A Nazi-themed cafe in Indonesia that closed shop after sparking international outrage reopened Saturday with its walls still bearing swastikas and a painting of Adolf Hitler.

Henry Mulyana voluntarily shut down his SoldatenKaffee last year after media reports exposed his swastika-clad establishment, prompting death threats and accusation of inciting racial hatred.

Following the closure, his lawyer told AFP that Henry would later reopen his business with a broader World War II theme and said he would remove all swastikas.

But at the opening on Saturday, three huge iron eagles bearing swastikas were on display, as were WWII propaganda posters bearing the Nazi symbol.

Several young men attended the opening dressed in military outfits, including one bearing a swastika on his arm, and some posed for photos as prisoners of war in a mock interrogation room.

“All aspects of the SoldatenKaffee are legal. We have a lot of customers from Europe and they don’t have a problem with the World War II theme, because it is seen here from a historical perspective,” Henry told reporters at the reopening.

That Henry is allowed to keep his cafe open sits in stark contrast to

attitudes in Europe, where several countries have criminalized promoting Nazi ideology and Holocaust denial.

The Jewish population in Indonesia is tiny, but historians have blamed poor schooling in the country for the lack of awareness and sensitivity of the Holocaust.


TOPICS: Food; Local News; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: indonsesia; nazi; restaurant

1 posted on 06/24/2014 2:50:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
Don't Be Stupid
Be a Smarty
Come and have
A Nazi Party
2 posted on 06/24/2014 2:54:22 PM PDT by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: nickcarraway

If the business succeeds then it can be said the owner is serving his local market, which would speak volumes about his little piece of Indonesia.


3 posted on 06/24/2014 2:54:39 PM PDT by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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To: nickcarraway
Saw one of these in Zurich. It was more like a museum/bar/restaurant.
4 posted on 06/24/2014 2:55:03 PM PDT by Gabrial (The nightmare will continue as long as the nightmare is in the Whitehouse.)
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5 posted on 06/24/2014 2:55:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: nickcarraway

"So! It's all forgotten now, and let's hear no more about it. So, that's two egg mayonnaise, a prawn Goebbels, a Hermann Goering, and four Colditz salads."

6 posted on 06/24/2014 2:56:48 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: nickcarraway

Springtime for Hitler and Germany,winter for Poland and France....

7 posted on 06/24/2014 3:00:29 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party Policy:Lie,Deny,Refuse To Comply)
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To: dfwgator

You started it
No we didn’t
Yes you did,you invaded Poland


8 posted on 06/24/2014 3:01:40 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Rat Party Policy:Lie,Deny,Refuse To Comply)
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To: nickcarraway

Those dark skinned Malays wouldn’t pass Nazi racial muster in a million years.

Nazi-loving Arabs are the same way. They think reading Mein Kampf in Arabic & conforming their ancient Jew-hatred with Nazi ideology will somehow turn them into honorary “Aryans”.

Or maybe the Malayans recall a time of a uniquely Asian form of racial supremacy - the Japanese in WWII. Time to be the masters now.


9 posted on 06/24/2014 3:16:40 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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I don’t think there is any deep philosophy here beyond the Nazi’s being snappy dressers.


10 posted on 06/24/2014 3:21:53 PM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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To: elcid1970

Himmler, among other Nazi officials actually expressed a great admiration for Islam.


11 posted on 06/24/2014 3:23:32 PM PDT by dfwgator
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I often wondered how those Meetings to Secure the Alliance with Japan went with Hitler.

The Japanese Sure arn't Aryans.

I guess even Hitler couldn't let his own Racism get in the way of a good Alliance.

12 posted on 06/24/2014 3:50:41 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: KC_Lion

The Nazis took due note of Japanese attitudes of racial supremacy, and seeing how brutally this was carried out against millions of hapless Chinese, they officially declared the Japanese people to be “honorary Aryans” as the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis was being proclaimed.


13 posted on 06/24/2014 4:36:43 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: nickcarraway; Slings and Arrows

Do they serve South American cuisine?


14 posted on 06/25/2014 8:05:35 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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