Hitler Restaurant.

[suffragette]

I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this story and thought it must be April 1st.

Why would anybody choose such a name for a restaurant and should people be offended?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/52 75866.stm

[nev2u]

Nothing but cheap publicity!! Do you think anyone would have even been bothered about the Restaurant if it were any other ordinary name. The owners wanted cheap publicity for their place and sadly, they succeeded. Shame on them!!

[jno]

bizarre... but India was not directly involved in the European war, except as a remote part of the British Empire; there's no reason why they should feel as strongly about it as the British and Germans. And the swastika is an ancient Indian symbol.

But do you suppose there'd be the same fuss if anyone opened a Tamerlane restaurant in Europe? Probably not, though he was just as bloodthirsty.

[suffragette]

I think jno raises an important point about Tamerlane and to make his point more contemporary, would a restaurant called, 'Stalin's Kitchen' be banned anywhere in Europe.

He was probably more murderous than Hitler and equally as effective at planning and implementing mass murder, but doesn't appear to incite our rage or bogey-man fears in the manner of Hitler's regime. In fact, there is still something of the 'Joking Joe' element to Stalin. Why is that, I wonder?

[keyvan]

It's interseting to see how quick the jewish community respond to such events in all countries and condemn it yet when it comes to their own attrocities in certain part of the world they turn a blind eye.

Ask them if they cared about Tamerlane they probably wouldn't. I know some indians and as jno pointed out swastika is an ancient indian symbol and as such should be respected.

[flip-flop]

Mussolini's almost sounds classy! I'll have the salata caprese please.

[jno]

just don't order the kidney with fava beans at Hannibal's.

[jno]

ooh, sorry, should have been liver... fancy my forgetting the specialite de la maison

[HatPin]

They should of got Basil Fawlty to do the menu :)

[luffdougie]

my god, what next, a caf� called binladans coffee ?

[gavinbecky]

Those that are offended are likely to be older. Ask most people under 30 and they couldn't care less.

In the same way that people over 80 can still generally dislike the Germans., I am totally ok with them.

In 100 years time when the 2nd world war is confined to history and there is no one alive that fought in it, I'm sure Hitler and Joseph Goebbels restaurants will be popping up all over the place. No one would batter an eyelid.

[jenstar]

Dunno about offensive but that sure is one tacky-looking joint. (And the apostrophe is in the wrong place too!)

[anotheoldgit]

I do believe this is (or was) a Saddam Hussein Mosque somewhere in London.

[Sherry1]

I agree it was a publicity stunt... and it worked didn't it? May have cost a bit to replace the sign but you couldn't buy the coverage it has got just look we're even discussing it here !!!

[jenstar]

I'd eat there, but I wouldn't use the toilets.

[searchme]

...Bit Nazity that WM!!!

[searchme]

No WM-I didn't pick that up-you're right,not one little bit funny.

Jenstar has obviously forgotten to take her tablets.

[Grunty]

gavinbecky - which is the restaurant that serves battered eyelids?