But, that does not mean the game went away. Nope, there is a website devoted not only to the game but its two follow up versions. And, yes, each is just as offensive as the first only with better graphics. And, yes, you can order in quantity for stores. And there are stores that are carrying the whole set.
Now might be a good time to mention that Jesus and all his apostles were Jewish. It somehow seems salient.
To those who say “Yeah, but they’re not selling it in store near me” I say you have woefully missed the point. The point is that there are enough people out there to fund this industry. And I would dare to venture that more are your neighbors than you might be comfortable with.
Of course, if it were just one little item I would ignore it. But it isn’t. As part of their “Austrian Legends” collection, a company in Austria has released a festive, holiday oriented, line of Hitler Schnapps.
A prosecutor is investigating whether a man selling wine and schnapps with pictures of Adolf Hitler on the labels is breaking a law prohibiting displays glorifying the Nazi era.
Wilfried Siegele says he will examine whether the alleged sales break the law after complaints from a Green party member.
The man was identified Tuesday by officials and the Austria Press Agency only as Roland M., in keeping with privacy laws.
A website posting with a Facebook link to Roland Marte shows bottles with portraits of Hitler and the swastika. The site offers sales of spirits in “nostalgic bottles of former historical greats.”
A woman answering the telephone listed under Marte’s name confirmed he sold such bottles but said Marte wasn’t home. She would not identify herself.
Eva Braun mayhaps?
Again, if there weren’t customers they wouldn’t be selling this crap.
Speaking of crap, I wonder why the nice attorneys for Monopoly haven’t completely shut down this train wreck; ‘Pogromly,’ Neo-Nazi Version Of Monopoly!
No, I am not making this up.
The Holocaust is just fun and games to some hateful individuals.
A German terrorist group sold a Neo-Nazi version of Monopoly to fund its illicit activities, according to authorities.
The Local reports that “Pogromly” features a Swastika starting point, concentration camps instead of railways and “gasworks”.
The Telegraph reports that proceeds from the game were used to help finance the illegal doings of the National Socialist Underground. The group is accused of murdering at least nine men and a police officer between 2000 and 2007 and carrying out 14 bank robberies, according to the paper.
The classic Hasbro-produced version of board game focused on Atlantic City real-estate development, whereas the skinhead game center on the final solution. Players use reichsmarks, the currency of Nazi Germany, to buy up valuable properties like Dachau and Buchenwald,
The game sold for the equivalent of about $78, according to The Local.
The German Herald reports that authorities say they confiscated several sets of the game in connection with a raid on a bomb-making operation run by the group last month.
Um, Google it, you can still buy it. That raid accomplished nothing.
Above and beyond the spiteful vitriol espoused by each of these products it is sad to think there are people who’s world view is so restricted that it allows for none other than themselves. If they realized, when all is said and done, just how boring and insipid they are they might open up to some new ideas.
That would be my holiday wish.
Really, Peace on Earth isn’t all that much to ask for is it?
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