July 20



ITALY:



'Hitler wine' sparks outrage
July 20 2003




Anyone care to raise their glasses to Hitler? No thanks, said a family of
disgusted Poles who came across Adolf Hitler wine while on holiday in
Italy.

The tourists bought the bottle for 5.30 euros ($9.13) in a supermarket in
northern Italy and, upon their return home, they handed it over to
Poland's biggest-selling newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, which displayed the
offensive item on its front page.

Adolf Hitler was splashed across the bottle's label, his arm raised in the
Nazi salute, while the regime's motto "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuehrer" -
One People, One Empire, One Leader - was written across the bottom.

"We were shocked. It's disgusting," said one of the tourists, quoted by
Gazeta in Warsaw.

"We hid the bottle in the trunk of the car when we crossed the Polish
border because we were afraid that customs officers would think we were
Nazi sympathisers," he added.

The supermarket also sold bottles graced with the effigy of Italy's
wartime dictator Benito Mussolini, the tourists said.

(source: Agence France Presse)