Leading Swiss Grocery Chain Apologizes For Hitler And Mussolini Coffee Creamers

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GENEVA (AP) — A leading Swiss supermarket chain is apologizing for what it calls an "unforgivable blunder": distributing mini-containers of coffee cream bearing portraits of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.

Migros, which also sells electronics and household goods, says it is immediately withdrawing boxes containing hundreds of the coffee cream containers and is breaking all ties with Karo-Versand, the small Swiss company that designed the collectible series of 55 different motifs — including likenesses of the German and Italian fascist dictators.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/23/hitler-coffee-cream-supermarket-apology_n_6035182.html?utm_hp_ref=weird-news

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Migros announced on Wednesday that it would no longer do business with Karo-Versand, the company that made the packaging, after Karo’s Peter Wälchli described the Hitler pictures as "unproblematic".

“Of course what happened under Hitler was bad,” Wälchli told the Swiss News Agency. But he said it shouldn’t make a difference whether he appears in a film or on a creamer lid.
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The idea for the series came from a book of cigar bands, according to Peter Rothenbühler, Wälchli’s partner at Karo-Versand.

“Two years ago, nobody said anything,” Rothenbühler told swissinfo.ch. The single-portion packages recently came into circulation again, and are still for sale on the company website – with or without cream inside.

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/creamer-packaging-features-dictator-mugs/41074650

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