Nazi bed covers withdrawn after Indian Jews protest

Agence France-Presse
Last updated 12:12pm (Mla time) 10/03/2007

MUMBAI--A new line of bedspreads called the "NAZI Collection" will be withdrawn from stores after India's tiny Jewish community protested, a furnishings dealer said.

The brochure of the collection featured swastikas and its promoters said that NAZI stood for "New Arrival Zone of India."

The dealer apologized for the "obnoxious name" and agreed to withdraw the line in a letter this week to the Indian Jewish Federation, the body said in a letter received Tuesday evening.

Last year, a restaurant in Mumbai -- home to around 5,000 of the total 6,000 Jews in India -- changed its name from "Hitler's Cross" following similar complaints.

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lol indians really associate with the nazis dont they? dont they know the war crimes they comitted during the second and first world wars? You know the nazis only wanted the north indians lol.

No, Indians do not associate with Nazis. North Indians and Nazis have no connection.

My grandmother has recently told me that my great great grandfathers family was from UP & calcutta but she says she doesnt know exactly what city/town though.

where are you from tenji?

A number of places......are you looking for country of ethnic origin or country of current residence?

You are very wrong here. The truth is that the Indians don't like to associate themselves with Nazis or Hitler in any way. You will never find any image of Hitler in even these nazi centric products in India. What attracts Indians is the Swastika.

It happened in many countries. Most of them have no association with Nazis, Hitler or Swastika.

A recent pizza ad in New Zealand used Hitler as a sales mascot.


In November 1999, a Taiwanese company used Hitler to sell German-made electric space heaters.

In 1998, the British Army used Hitler in a recruitment advertisement aimed at ethnic minorities.

PETA’s ad campaign “Holocaust on Your Plate,” meant to directly compare Auschwitz ’s gas chambers with the chicken in your oven.