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The owner of an Indian clothing store said Wednesday that he would only change its name from "Hitler" if he was compensated for re-branding costs, amid a growing row over the new shop.
The outlet, which sells Western men's wear, opened 10 days ago in Ahmedabad city in the western state of Gujarat with "Hitler" written in big letters over the front and with a Nazi swastika as the dot on the "i".
"I will change it (the name) if people want to compensate me for the money we have spent -- the logo, the hoarding, the business cards, the brand," Rajesh Shah told AFP.
He put the total costs at about 150,000 rupees ($2,700).
Shah insisted that until the store opened he did not know who Adolf Hitler was and that Hitler was a nickname given to the grandfather of his store partner because "he was very strict".
"I didn't know how much the name would disturb people," he told AFP by telephone from Ahmedabad. "It was only when the store opened I learnt Hitler had killed six million people."
Members of the tiny Jewish community in Ahmedabad condemned the store's name, while a senior Israeli diplomat said the embassy would raise the matter "in the strongest possible way."
"People use such names mostly out of ignorance," Israel's Mumbai Consul General Orna Sagiv told AFP.
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Esther David, a prominent Indian writer in Ahmedabad who is Jewish, said she was "disturbed and distressed" by the shop, but added that some Indians used the word "Hitler" casually to describe autocratic people.
David said Jewish residents had sought to change Shah's mind about the store's name and told him about the Holocaust.
The row evoked memories of a controversy six years ago when a Mumbai restaurant owner called his cafe "Hitler's Cross" and put a swastika on the hoarding, claiming Hitler was a "catchy" name.
The restaurant owner eventually agreed to change the name after protests by the Israeli embassy, Germany and the US Anti-Defamation League.
Hitler attracts an unusual degree of respect in some parts of India, with his book "Mein Kampf" a popular title in bookshops and on street stalls.
Gujarat schoolbooks issued by the Hindu nationalist state government were criticised a few years ago for praising Hitler as someone who gave "dignity and prestige" to the German government.

Usul · 30-08-2012, 18:56:27

Ta vest me odmah podsetila na "Gandhi to Hitler"

Gandhi to Hitler Part 1/6 (2011)

Garava poljakinja trci po polju zita i neko je upuca... Hitlera glumi ne-arijevac...

bizarno 100%

Gaff · 30-08-2012, 20:58:28

Augmented Reality - ChestBurster

Gaff · 31-08-2012, 10:40:31

Carol Burnett Show - Star Trek Parody

dylan_dog · 31-08-2012, 12:16:36

Melkor · 31-08-2012, 13:10:55

What If Pixar Made The Expendables 2?

Melkor · 31-08-2012, 13:51:43

Melkor · 31-08-2012, 13:52:21

Perin · 31-08-2012, 14:32:54

pokojni Steva · 31-08-2012, 14:40:41

mac · 31-08-2012, 15:09:16

Čak Noris je rođen 10. marta 1940. Nekih pet godina pre nego što je začet.

Karl Rosman · 31-08-2012, 15:14:16

Quote from: mac on 31-08-2012, 15:09:16
Čak Noris je rođen 10. marta 1940. Nekih pet godina pre nego što je začet.

Tog dana je umro Bulgakov. Koicidencija? Nisam siguran...

Lord Kufer · 31-08-2012, 15:15:19

Nemačka je kapitulirala 9. maja a ne 7.

mac · 31-08-2012, 16:14:04

Znači oba datuma su pogrešna. Koincidencija? Ne bih rekao...

Mada, VE Day se slavi sedmog maja. Ima tu nečeg...

Lord Kufer · 31-08-2012, 16:59:55

Victory in Europe Day — known as V-E Day or VE Day — was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 (in Commonwealth countries, 7 May 1945) to mark the date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, thus ending the war in Europe. The formal surrender of the occupying German forces in the Channel Islands was not until 9 May 1945. On 30 April Hitler committed suicide during the Battle of Berlin, and so the surrender of Germany was authorized by his successor, President of Germany Karl Dönitz. The administration headed by Dönitz was known as the Flensburg government. The act of military surrender was signed on 7 May in Reims, France, and on 8 May in Berlin, Germany.