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Title: Bavarian brewery accused of selling 'Nazi beer'
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The Telegraph
URL Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor ... used-of-selling-Nazi-beer.html
Published: Mar 22, 2016
Author: Justin Huggler
Post Date: 2016-03-23 17:43:43 by X-15
Keywords: Nazi, beer, HH, 88
Views: 68
Comments: 2
A brewery in Bavaria has been accused of selling “Nazi beer” after it released a new lager under the brand name Grenzzaun Halbe, or Border Fence Half. Local student unions have called for a boycott of the brewery’s products, saying the name is a clear reference to the refugee crisis. But it is not just the branding that has caused controversy. Student activists say the beer’s price and best before date are hidden neo-Nazi references. Border Fence Half — the half is a reference to a half-litre — is priced at 88 euro cents a bottle. The number 88 has long been used as a code by neo-Nazis in Germany, standing for HH or Heil Hitler — because H is the eighth letter of the alphabet. The best before date marked on the bottles is November 9 — the anniversary of the Kristallnacht pogrom against Germany’s Jews. The head of the Röhrl brewery has protested he has no control over the best before date, which is set by the authorities. Frank Sillner said he did not even know about 88’s Nazi overtones until a journalist pointed them out to him. The Bavarian Brewers’ Association said it believed Mr Sillner’s explanation. But the student union at nearby Regensburg University said the name of the beer alone was enough to justify a boycott. “It’s wrong to start a marketing campaign at the expense of refugees,” Michael Achmann, a student spokesman, said. The brand has been widely seen as calling for a border fence to keep migrants out of Germany. The bottle labels also feature the slogan: “Protect. Defend. Preserve”. But Mr Sillner insisted the name and slogan were not directed against migrants, but referred to defending Bavarian culture. “We have nothing against the refugees, we were the first ones to help,” Mr Sillner said. The brewery had made vehicles available to transport asylum seekers and distributed free drinks, he said. Poster Comment: So I can shake a small crystal vial of this beer at a hebe and it'll burn him as if it's some kind of holy water splashing on a vampire?? :)
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
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The story is plain enough. These college students are rabble rousers and looking to stir up some dirt on the brewery. Besides, 88 Euro cents is equal to one dollar. Pretty good price for a pint of beer. ;)
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
Mind you, these fools are heirs to the ones who used to jeer about people like us thinking we saw "a communist under every bed." Now silly paranoia (granting the notion they're serious) is the air they breathe -- outward.
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