Zippo Pulls Offensive Lighters Sold by Neo-Nazis

Zippo’s German distributor has pulled a number of lighters after discovering that they were being sold through an extremist website that promotes anti-Semitism.

Zippo Manufacturing Co. explains that they were completely unaware that the militaristic designs featured on the lights in question had any offensive connotation and apologized for bringing them to market.

One of the lighters pictures a soldier with the word“Landser”, which is an old German word for infantryman, but apparently also the name of a German neo-Nazi rock band. Landser (the band) has members that have been convicted of hate crimes about 10 years ago.

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