Hitler store in India sparks outrage!

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I don't know if this guy is telling the truth or not about not knowing who Hitler was.

However, my understanding as a British Indian is that many Indians in India - and other Asians too - do not feel the same way about Hitler as many people in the West do. The popular Western idea that the Allies saved the world from a power-hungry regime who wanted to conquer it sounds kind of strange to some people who were living under British or French imperialism only a few decades ago.

I know in Britain we have restaurants named after Genghis Khan, Tamerlane and Chairman Mao (among others), which would probably seem strange to certain people in Asia, although perhaps not especially newsworthy.

Well, look at this: Jefferson Davis High School

http://www.jd.mps-al.org/

I wonder how many of the students actually know what Jefferson Davis stood for?

The Confederate flag, of course!

There's a Lee Middle School right around the corner from my place. If you had any doubt about the level of depravity down here, then know that their football team is called...


....wait for it...


The Rebels.

BFD!

We have a Jefferson Davis Highway in the Virginia part of the Washington DC suburbs.

That highschool is in Montgomery Alabama. Do you really believe that any teenager brought up in Montgomery Alabama does NOT know exactly who Jefferson Davis was?

I mean really.

Though it would be interesting to know what the Black students who go there think of that name.

1. The video in the OP is more than a year old.
2. Despite the ignorance it would take, the store owner might have been acting in good faith.

After all, this is the symbol of the Indian religion of Jainism, the most pacifist religion in the world:

There is an international association of the swastika in part of Malaysia. Although I knew the other connotation it was still a shock to see it. Pairing the badge with the term 'Hitler' sort of does not lend itself to concluding a Jainist or Buddhist affiliation. Although there is certainly less awareness of Hitler in some countries in Asia, it is not the case in India as a significant number of Indian troops fought against Germany during the Second World War.

Florida school board votes to rename High School named after KKK founder Nathan Bedford Forrest, but there's another one in a nearby school district.
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In this regard a few months ago I have read about an Indian politician and his second and third names, he had those because his father hated Churchill and therefor gave his son the name of Winston's worst enemy. However such things should not be made in to more then it is, there where plenty of Hindutva leaders that supported the British war effort stating that India would never be free if the Axis won the war.

Or how about a Nazi themed cafe in Indonesia? http://kotaku.com/man-opens-nazi-cafe-baffled-that-it-pisses-people-off-947580528
I understand Nazi chic is big in Japan

Im pretty sure it wouldnt fly well if they opened a Hitler store in Israel!

I dont know, apparently Nazi Porn is quite popular in Israel:- Link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_pornography

I bet a shop fronted by a couple of blonde dominatrices dressed in leather SS outfits and wealding whips would be quite successful.

I can't find the source material, but i remember reading about an Indian woman during the war who was some sort of weird metaphysicist that sympathised with the nazis and hitler specifically. She believed that if the nazis succeeded in finishing the holocaust it would bring some sort of 'karmic harmony' to the Earth. Apparently she worked for the Germans as an agent in India.

For what it's worth, I find the Communist-styled vodka bars pretty disgusting too. Oh, and the Ghengis Khan ones. Never come across a Chairman Mao one.

A popular Indian restaurant name here is "Churchill's India" or "Victoria's India" - and they're run by British Pakistanis/Bangladeshis. I'm like... er...