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Fashion firm under investigation for swastika design
Updated: 19/Oct/2006 19:21
BERLIN (EJP)--- Fashion firm Esprit is under investigation in Germany after accusations that British-made buttons appearing in their new collection have swastika designs.
The firm has agreed to pulp over 200,000 autumn collection catalogues after complaints that the leather folding on certain cardigan buttons resembles the Nazi insignia.
[highlight]And Esprit bosses continue to face large fines or even prison sentences if German prosecutors investigating the charges decide that the buttons were intentionally designed.[/highlight]
Esprit board chairman Heinz Kroger said: "It has come as a great shock to us and is very annoying."
He added that the buttons in question had been used for many years by various fashion concerns, including rivals of Esprit. And the autumn catalogue was produced in London and approved by affiliates in several different countries "who unfortunately did not notice the resemblance".
[highlight]"We have known about these traditional English buttons for years," said Kroger. "That's why nobody ever dreamt that they could be associated with such a thing."[/highlight]
Dusseldorf chief prosecutor Johannes Mocken has confirmed that authorities are looking into the case and said: "We are considering raising charges on the grounds of the use of insignia of prohibited organisations."
He said that what would determine the outcome of the investigation was whether the markings resembled swastikas deliberately or by accident.
However, he added that, so far, he had been given no reason to believe that Esprit management had Nazi beliefs. He said: "Until now, we have seen no evidence that the company has a political bias in that direction."
An early statement released by Esprit in response to the charge says: "We regret it if anyone perceives a remote relationship between the design of these buttons and an illegal act."
[highlight]If charges are raised and the courts rule against the US-founded clothing brand, Esprit is likely to be fined and forced to withdraw the collection, and those responsible could face up to three years in jail.[/highlight]
The prosecutors said that they had become aware of the jackets after a member of the public had spotted the buttons and had a lawyer send the authorities a copy of the new Esprit catalogue.
Last month, a court in Stuttgart fined a 32-year-old man more than 7,000 euros (8,700 dollars) for selling anti-Nazi badges that showed a swastika with a line through it. In Germany, all depictions of the Nazi cross are forbidden.
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"A careful study of anti-semitism prejudice and accusations might be of great value to many jews,
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Posted : 19/10/2006 1:54 pm
Is this what they are crying about?
Posted : 19/10/2006 2:46 pm
Fucking madness.
He said that what would determine the outcome of the investigation was whether the markings resembled swastikas deliberately or by accident.
Silence is the virtue of fools.
-Sir Francis Bacon
"Take the pain!"
-Platoon
Posted : 19/10/2006 2:57 pm
Fucking madness.
No better way to put it.
Imagine: Our Own World...
[color="Sienna"]NO HOPE WITHOUT ROPE
Posted : 19/10/2006 5:15 pm
Now if the Christians had the power to go after jewelry or buttons that "mocked" a cross or promoted Satanism, they would be called insane tyrants.
"Go, Nazis, Go!"
Posted : 19/10/2006 5:26 pm
Is this what they are crying about?
Oh, yes, yes, I see the swastika. And look, can you make out a little, tiny Hitler... and there's Jesus!... and they are pushing a hook nosed Jew into the oven!
"Go, Nazis, Go!"
Posted : 19/10/2006 5:32 pm
Last month, a court in Stuttgart fined a 32-year-old man more than 7,000 euros (8,700 dollars) for selling anti-Nazi badges that showed a swastika with a line through it. In Germany, all depictions of the Nazi cross are forbidden.
I am aware that Germany is full of sneaky graffiti artists, and I don't think that I have to tell the readers here, what the most popular signature drawing happens to be.
Brothers, keep sticking it deep up their filthy jewish ass!
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The ink of the learned is as precious as the blood of the martyr. For one drop of ink may make millions think.
Posted : 19/10/2006 5:35 pm
Keep pushing us. That's right. The more oppression the better.
Posted : 19/10/2006 5:37 pm
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http://www.expatica.com/actual/article.asp?subchannel_id=52&story_id=33837
Prosecutors drop probe into swastika buttons
19 October 2006
Ratingen, Germany (dpa) - Prosecutors on Thursday dropped investigations into German fashion concern Esprit whose catalogue contained photos of buttons with a design that resembled a swastika.
The company was forced to recall 200,000 catalogues after prosecutors, acting on a complaint, announced they were investigating Esprit for displaying insignia of a banned organization.
Esprit said the leather buttons were made in England and had been used for many years by different fashion concerns without anyone raising objections.
Its catalogue was produced in London and approved by affiliates in several different countries who did not notice a swastika resemblance, the company said.
A spokesman for the prosecutors office in Dusseldorf said the company's explanation was credible. The design on the buttons differed according to production and lighting conditions, he said.
The swastika and other insignia associated with the Nazis is outlawed in Germany.
Last month a court in Stuttgart fined a 32-year-old man more than 7,000 euros (8,700 dollars) for selling anti-Nazi badges that showed a swastika with a line through it, as in a traffic sign.
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"A careful study of anti-semitism prejudice and accusations might be of great value to many jews,
who do not adequately realize the irritations they inflict." - H.G. Wells (November 11, 1933)
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Posted : 19/10/2006 6:22 pm
Last month a court in Stuttgart fined a 32-year-old man more than 7,000 euros (8,700 dollars) for selling anti-Nazi badges that showed a swastika with a line through it, as in a traffic sign.
Holy shit, the German goverment takes their swazi ban seriously!
Posted : 19/10/2006 6:35 pm
Now if the Christians had the power to go after jewelry or buttons that "mocked" a cross or promoted Satanism, they would be called insane tyrants.
That is the kind of hypocrisy that really makes my blood boil about jewz. Those cases about the cross, nuns, priests, movies, stereotypes are not done by accident. :box:
They can do what they want to accomplish their goals at the expense of others, but any hint of distaste or criticism to them and their ways and they have a jail sentence ready for you. 
"Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him...." ------ John 8:44
Posted : 19/10/2006 6:43 pm
The Jews have Europe by the throat now, and the sooner we begin resisting all throughout Europe and the White-founded nations, the more chance we'll have.
Posted : 19/10/2006 10:08 pm
Holy shit, the German goverment takes their swazi ban seriously!
Yeah, that kind of thing has happened more than once when the law is applied just as harshly to anti-fascists as it would be to neo-Nazis. Poetic justice, itz.
Posted : 19/10/2006 10:12 pm