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Thread ID: 11434 | Posts: 13 | Started: 2003-12-10
2003-12-10 21:42 | User Profile
[I]A perfect Christmas gift for the liberal anti-racist in your life! Cheers!! Salut!! Prost!![/I]
[SIZE=3][B]Bad publicity sends Hitler wine sales soaring[/B][/SIZE]
[IMG]http://www.ananova.com/images/web/78045.jpg[/IMG]
Christmas sales of Adolf Hitler wine have reached a record high thanks to publicity generated by attempts to ban it in both Brussels and Berlin.
Wine-grower Alessandro Lunardelli started selling the bottles of Hitler wine in 1995 after the success of his Mussolini label back home in Italy.
He has already made a fortune but says this Christmas sales have "gone through the roof" thanks to the interest generated by publicity over attempts to ban his wine.
"Getting sued was the best thing that could have happened," Lunardelli said in a telephone interview from his company's headquarters near Udine on Italy's border with Austria.
Lunardelli was also sued in Italy over his Mussolini wine but escaped fines and jail because authorities said it could not be proven he was promoting fascism.
His Hitler wine has caused a similar row, with Germany asking Italy to act to stop Lunardelli. He said the publicity helped him reach thousands of new customers across Europe.
The Hitler wine is on the market with the slogan "One People, One Empire, One Leader" and has variations with pictures of Rommel and Goering.
Lunardelli rejects any allegations that he is promoting fascism and Nazism and points out he also offers bottles with pictures of Marx, Stalin, Lenin and Che Guevara.
[COLOR=Navy][B]"It's strange that Stalin murdered 15 million people, but there is no fuss about the bottle. And for the labels with Hitler and Mussolini I ended up in court," said 41-year-old Lunardelli.[/B][/COLOR]
[url]http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_845186.html[/url]
2003-12-10 23:02 | User Profile
Wouldn't you want to bring this to a party?
2003-12-10 23:20 | User Profile
[QUOTE] [COLOR=Navy][B]"It's strange that Stalin murdered 15 million people, but there is no fuss about the bottle," said 41-year-old Lunardelli.[/B][/COLOR]
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Unfortunately.
2003-12-11 00:20 | User Profile
[QUOTE=xmetalhead]
[COLOR=Navy][B]"It's strange that Stalin murdered 15 million people, but there is no fuss about the bottle. And for the labels with Hitler and Mussolini I ended up in court," said 41-year-old Lunardelli.[/B][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
That statement alone makes me think that the amusing, and in my opinion ballsy, Mr. Lunardelli knows the score.
2003-12-11 04:54 | User Profile
Really would love to have a few case's, ha! Perhaps if he put's the symbol of the shake down club, of a K or U on every bottle they wouldn't raise a stink, about it then, ha,ha.
2003-12-12 08:31 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Smedley Butler]Really would love to have a few case's, ha! Perhaps if he put's the symbol of the shake down club, of a K or U on every bottle they wouldn't raise a stink, about it then, ha,ha.[/QUOTE]
That would be a pisser.
2003-12-17 20:56 | User Profile
Here's to good friends Tonight is kinda special The beer we'll pour Must be something more somehow... So tonight...to-niiight... Let it be Hitlerbrau....
2003-12-18 03:36 | User Profile
Il Ragno,
Make some space in your p.m. box please. I got something for you. Thanks.
2003-12-19 01:25 | User Profile
A delightfully earthy bouquet - with just a hint of roasted Jude....
2003-12-20 00:50 | User Profile
Interesting that despite negative publicity, the Führerwein is selling well.
Why is it that...
...whenever I go into a bookstore, there is always at least one book with a swastika on its cover in the "new books" section???
2003-12-20 06:52 | User Profile
Good point, I grew up with from youngest childhood, Shirer's Rise and Fall of the 3rd Reich, in hardcover with that beautiful swastika on the cover, in our house. As a young child, to whom most books were a mystery, that wonderful sun-cross was hypnotic, and while I do remember my older brother carving it in his desk (we had these old-time wooden school desks at home) I'm sure I drew it many a time also.
As for Fuehrerwein, yes I want a case or so also, even if it's as awful as this shite I'm drinking now!
You know, with Modern Technology, it's not too hard to print up your own labels! Here's how! First, take something decent and drinkable, say Guinness Stout in bottles, then immerse the bottles (unopened!) in a sink of water to soak the old labels off. Then, print up your own labels (Uncle Wolf, Goebbels, etc choose your hero) and stick 'em on. Hey Presto, you've got your own expression of this new art form! Sure to be a hit!
2003-12-24 05:51 | User Profile
Has anyone on here ordered any Hitler Wine through the mail?
2003-12-25 04:56 | User Profile
Order a bottle for your friend's bar mitzvah! Click the following link... [url]http://www.vinilunardelli.it/[/url] Then click on the Union Jack, then select Historical Series and then click on Adolf's head.
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