Heil Pizza

Hell Pizzas of New Zealand actually used this billboard as part of a recent Ad campaign, needless to say the ads have now been removed.

QUOTE - [The chain, which has had a string of complaints about its advertising, including a condom mailout last year, said the Hitler billboards in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch were meant to lampoon Hitler rather than be offensive.

The Nazi leader is shown in a Heil Hitler salute with pizza in his hand, next to his quote: "It is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell."] - stuff.co.nz

I'm assuming the pizza was a Margherita...

Wine Labels With Hitler's Image Seized

QUOTE - [A prosecutor in Bolzano, northern Italy has seized wine bottle labels bearing a portrait of Hitler and other Nazis from a winery near the Austrian border.

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 Australian

Bell Pulls Belsen Ad

QUOTE - [Canadian telco Bell issued a public apology following their use of controversial Sex Pistols reference in a recent advertising campaign. Subway and bus shelter advertisements for their discount phone service Solo featured a woman dressed in stereotypical 70s punk rock attire, complete with a button that read "Belsen Was a Gas," the title to one of the Pistols' more controversial tracks. The song, intentionally offensive as was typical of the period, featured lyrics about the about the World War II Bergen-Belsen concentration camps in Germany where an estimated 50,000 people died (among them Anne Frank, who's diary was famously published after the war). It appeared on the Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle soundtrack.

The phone company has pulled the ads and claims that the text was illegible during the approval process. When blown up to mural size the button was clearly visible. A spokesperson stated "It was an unfortunate situation, one we regret, and in fact an error on our part, and we took it down as soon as we could."] - punknews.org

Nazitubbies

From late night Danish TV (the 11th hour) comes a rather disturbing vision of what children's television may have looked like had Hitler triumphed in World War Two.

Walmart's Nazi Tshirts Found In Outlet Stores

QUOTE - [Ever wonder what happened to all those shirts Walmart pulled off their shelves for containing a disgusting Nazi symbol? Well, some of them can be found in a Florida Beall's Outlet store for $4.99...] - consumerist.com

Zara Pulls Swastika Bag

QUOTE - [Angry customers were left wondering if high street chain Zara had created a collection based on Nazi chic when they found stores selling handbags with swastikas on them.

Bosses at the trendy chain were forced into a grovelling apology after being flooded with complaints about the £39 handbag which has a green swastika at each corner.

The holdall-style bag - which also has flowers and bicycles stitched into it along with the two-inch swastikas - has been slammed by anti-racism campaigners, who called its design 'abhorrent'.

Guia Cleps, 20, from London, working at a PR company, said: 'I'm Jewish so I'm absolutely shocked. I wonder how they could let this happen?'

Another woman, who did not want to be named, said: 'How could it get through to the stores? Why didn't they realise earlier?'

Zara which has 50 stores in Britain more than 1,000 worldwide apologised using the symbol of the world's biggest race hate campaign as a fashion symbol.] - Metro