Posted on 09/19/2007 5:18:57 PM PDT by freedom44
ROME (AFP) — A prosecutor in Bolzano, northern Italy seized wine bottle labels on Wednesday bearing a portrait of Hitler and other Nazis from a winery near the Austrian border, the company said.
The 20 labels from the "Der Fuehrer" line show Hitler raising the Nazi salute and his generals, including Hermann Goering, the Reich's economic minister, Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Gestapo, and Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy.
The black and white labels are imprinted with the mottoes "Ein volk, ein Reich, ein Fuehrer" (one people, one empire, one Fuehrer) and "Sieg heil", a slogan proclaimed by Hitler as a greeting or in front of the masses.
The incriminating labels constitute a glorification of the perpetrators of crimes against humanity, according to state prosecutor Cuno Tarfusser.
The Lunardelli company said it had sold around 20,000 bottles featuring the Hitler labels per year. It also sold wine with images of Mussolini on the label, which were not seized by police.
The bottles make up part of a product line started in 1995 called the "historic collection", selling wine with labels with the faces of Winston Churchill, Antonio Gramsci, an Italian Marxist philosopher, Adolph Hitler, Karl Marx, Napoleon Bonaparte, Benito Mussolini, and Che Guevara.
The line stirred up controversy back in September 2003, when German Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries made an official protest against its sale.
At the time, she claimed that the labels referring to the Third Reich were "abominable and in bad taste."
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Also known as Bozen.
I detest Hitler and the Nazis as much as anyone, but confiscating and persecuting someone for labels on wine bottles is just crazy.
Is Carter’s picture for real???? ROFL!!
Hitler Wine. It "Hits" the spot!
LoL! Jimmah’s in good company L0L
Too funny. All the place name signs in South Tyrol/SudTirol are in Italian/German.
Wonder what Der Fuehrer would have thought about wine bottles printed with his surly mug, back in the day? Somebody probably tried, and soon disappeared.
Observation: stationed in Naples where nothing seemed to work and the Nord Italiani military couldn’t stand the place either. Drove into northern Italy on my way to Germany TDY. Stayed the night. Everything worked.
Just one problem: I like the Napolitani people much better.
Who is that between Lenin and Castro?
Pass the chairman Hillary!
“Who is that between Lenin and Castro?”
Hillary Clinton.
Nancy Pelosi.
John Murtha.
Ted Kennedy.
John Conyers.
Chuck Schumer.
Barbara Boxer.
Maxine Waters.
Jon Francoise Carry.
Al Big Fat Bore.
Dennis Kookyspinich.
Susan Saradon.
Tim Robbins.
Barbara Streisand.
Alec Baldwin.
Sean Penn.
Michael Moore.
Howard Nutcase Dean.
Bernie Sanders.
Etc., etc., etc.
What’s the difference? They’re all fascists.
Who can tell the difference.
Good one. LOL
It’s said that after one sip, you immediately develop the urge to walk into Czechoslovakia.
Northern Italy was part of Austria until WW1. The Tyrol was the bribe the Allies offered Italy to change sides.
If the Italians have been on both sides in 2 world wars, does that mean they’ve been in 4 world wars?
Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov?
Regarding your recent item on Italian “Hitler Wine”, please note that we have tried this vintage and are able to report the following:
This wine is very bold, with a very bitter after-taste. Doesn’t sit well with Russian food, completely dominates French cuisine, but can be successfully paired with tortellini and sushi. Palette can best be cleared with American and U.K. domestic brews.
Hitler wine has a full bodied taste with hints of blackcurrant, leather, gunpowder, steel, brick and burnt wood. “This is a bottle with a message in it, and the message is ‘beware’. This is not a wine for drinking, this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.”
Ultimately its taste will die in the cellar. Even so, it may still be found in rural South American cafes.
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