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”.
Wow.
“Shah insisted that until the store opened he did not know who Adolf Hitler was…”
Dude, seriously, Google that shit first!!
I think this qualifies for the “Da Fuck” story of the week. Just sayin’
He knew enough to include a little swatstika.
He must be selectively ignorant 😉
Well Swastika is sign of good and peace in the Hindu, Buddhist religion. Swastika is also a sankrit word.
What Nazi did was take the standard swastika and rotate it.
So he knows what Swastika is because he sees it every Hindu festival, in every Buddhist Temple.
While it is certainly strange for ‘us’ Westerners, we are more concerned about the, without a doubt and deservedly, almost completely negative connections we draw. I have worked in India several times, and can certainly say that a huge amount of the Indian people having positive feelings about that asshole, do not have them for the most negative reasons we might expect. We also have to consider that the Indian public school system is quite a disaster; most people do not know more than that Hitler was fond of the Aryan ‘race’ (to which a significant amount of Indians belong, even ‘Aryan’ is derived from a Sanskrit word), was inspired by the (positive in India) Swastika symbol, was able to build roads without holes in them (a widely unknown concept in most of India) and was initially (way before Hitler started genocide and total war) admired by Ghandi, a ‘fan letter’ from Ghandi to Hitler can be found in almost every book about Ghandi.
There is also a significant desire for a strong and non-corrupt leadership. So he is also serving as a role model; not a good choice, but a fact. Years ago I was working in IT administration for a US company’s subsidiary in India, more than 300 of our then over 2000 employees had some variation of ‘Hitler’ in their passwords (honestly), out of the few of those I knew, not a single one was even remotely a nazi.
oomph… I obviously mean Gandhi, not Ghandi. Sorry.
I bet if no one shopped there they might reconsider changing their name without compensation.