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. 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 AntiDefamation 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.

tpaine posted:

haha that's from "prince of space" which is a great episode

MadMedico posted:

getfiscal posted:

my friend got US satellite because he lived on a farm (?) and he would tape a bunch of them and we'd marathon them, which is what kids nowadays do with their glee dvds or whatever i guess, but back then it was legitimate and real.

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it's funny you say that because i am actually mike nelson in real life and i'd like to talk to you about jesus

Transient_Grace posted:

if you're against hitler you support brittish colonialism.

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littlegreenpills posted:

if your for hitler u support japenese colonialism. imagine, if you will, the Eurasia that could have been; one end oompah bands and chiseled blonds rubbing olive oil into each others' pecs, and at the other end two billion brown and yellow animes

kind of a menacing cover for a book about a utopia