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Wine labels with Hitler's image seized in Italy
AFP Wednesday, 19 September 2007

ROME — 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 realm, 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,
Adolf 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."

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