Swiss Company Apologizes for Creamer Featuring Hitler’s Face

Here’s a phrase I bet you never expected to hear: “Hitler creamer.” Well, a Swiss company came under fire over the past day over a picture of Adolf Hitler being featured on their small creamer containers.

Here’s the creamer in question:

#Hitler portrait on #swiss creamer. Producer says 'no problem' as nobody cares & #context doesnt matter!! @migros @TA pic.twitter.com/NRa0c43saq

— Rolf Paul Dreier (@dreierrp) October 22, 2014

Oh, and some of them also had Benito Mussolini‘s face on them.

So what did Migros, the Swiss retailer that makes the creamer, have to say? Well, they have no idea how it happened:

Migros, a Swiss retail giant, said it did not know exactly how the image came to be on the label…

Tristan Cerf, a spokesman for Migros, said by telephone from Lausanne on Wednesday that the company had been horrified by the failure of its internal controls to detect the images on its cream containers.

See, what happened was they went to an outside company to make labels, and some of them happened to be of Hitler and Mussolini, but Cerf said he has no idea how they “got past our controls.”

And just like creamer when you leave it out too long, this whole thing just smells rotten.

[featured image via @dreierrp]

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