What you’re looking at here is a store in Ahmedabad, India called “Hitler,” which apparently sells Superman t-shirts and other clothing. (Do you think Hitler dotted his I’s with a swastika like that? It makes him seem so cheerleaderish!). Anyway, if you’ve read this site before, you may have noticed other stories about that part of the world and their strange obsession with Hitler, as illustrated by the Bollywood movie, 
You think it was that Downfall meme or Cats that Look Like Hitler that did it?
The owner of the clothing outlet in Ahmedabad claims it’s merely a “nickname given to one of the proprietors’ grandfathers.”
“Hitler was a nickname given to my business partner Manish Chandani’s grandfather because of his strict nature. Frankly, till the time we applied for the trademark permission, I had only heard that Hitler was a strict man,” Rajesh Shah who owns the shop told The Times of India daily.
Yes, strict, that’s one way to put it. He wouldn’t let the Jews go out without arm bands (“you’ll catch your death of cold!”) and he always made them shower before supper! …What? Too soon? C’mon, I used a soft J.
Shah complains he had to spend Rs 40,000 on the banner, and says he won’t change the name unless he is compensated.
Some members of the Jewish community claim the proprietors know what Hitler’s name stands for. “They had researched well, right from the clothes the dictator wore to his cufflinks. We had suggested a separate design, but the proprietors claimed that the name brings good business since its launch a week back.” [RT]
I don’t know, it’s not that bad a name. I mean, it’s not like they’re selling tolerance. Say what you will about the Nazis, they were nothing if not snappy dressers. That said, if the Jews of Ahmedabad wanted to, I don’t know, hold some kind of “night of broken glass” where they smash the shop’s window, I don’t think anyone would blame them. Which would be a first.
Oh sure, of course a clothing company called “FRANCE” would allow itself to be bought and sold by Hitler.
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Hugo Boss reportedly designed the employee’s uniforms.
But their clothes are so kampfy!
Black Friday isn’t much at Hitler, but White Thursday has everyone screaming Mein! Mein! Mein!
We opened up a shop selling brightly coloured, tight fitting graphic tees & named it after history’s greatest
monstertwinkSuperman t-shirts? I did nazi that one coming!
This is outrageous anne frankly I wont stand for it!
This store certainly isn’t for the penny pinching types.
Don’t try to shoplift anything there, their security watched you like the Gestapo
I went here for my mitzvah suit, and ended up going to camp as part of a promotional give away.
The goose-step down inside the black leather jackets is to die for.
They had a really high concentration of our customers camping outside before their grand opening, all but ensuring that the brand name “Hitler” will be synonymous with concentrated camps
According to this store neutral shades are the hot thing in Swiss fashion this year.
Tailoring to shorter & skinnier customers, that store is almost always sold out of size “SS”
Weird! It’s an Indian store yet all the models are white, with blond hair and blue eyes.
I’m sure they’ll come to some kind of final solution… to the Jewish question. This’ll be over before you can Treblinka.
Every tag has a Star of David, and each customer gets a free tattoo in numerical order.
Their striped pyjamas are to die for.
I don’t get it, what’s all the führer about?
Some of the models are so thin you’d think they haven’t eaten in weeks.
I’m also opening a store with my grandfather’s nickname. Come visit me at Gropey!
I hear they’re expanding into the big and tall market with “Göring,”
Styles are appropriate for both hers and himmler.
I heard they took over the lease for the store next door called Rydz-Smigly. Nobody on the block wanted them to, but nobody really stopped them either.
His next business plan is to attract the hipsters by opening an Aryan Outfitters across town.
Hitler: The new, old, ghetto fashion.
Hitler has a real eye for fascion.
An odd touch having candy & snacks at the front of the store. But sound reasoning behind it – customers Goebbel them right up!
Their Luftwaffles are simply scrumptious paired with a glass of apple genocider.
The 7/11 next door serves Anschulsshies.
You can actually find some pretty cute toddler clothes in Hitler Youth.
I get my child’s clothing at OshKosh B’GAuschwitz.
A restaurant in India tried the same thing a few years ago, see proof at right. that guy also refused to change the name, citing the cost of rebranding, not to mention how much he’d invested in the ovens.
By “right” I mean your right, the viewer’s left. You guys all live inside my monitor, right?
Casualty Friday is always a riot.
God, winning!
Not to be outdone, a man in Jaffna, Sri Lanka is opening a store named Mussolini. But they only sell Blackshirts.
The big problem with Mussolini clothing: hang-dry only
But they do dry on time
Meanwhile, at the Imelda Marcos Memorial Footlocker …
Look at those douchey clothes. I bet they also wear Axis Body Spray.
This whole story is a gas!
He’s got enough money to change the name. He owns three Rite Adolf Pharmacies in that town alone.
“Shah complains he had to spend Rs 40,000 on the banner, and says he won’t change the name unless he is compensated.”
Such a stereotypical Jewish response…
Heil never shop there.
They are advertising a new special… Buy 2 get the 3rd Reich Free!
They’re already planning on opening stores in Poland, France and England!
It’s not even haute couture. It’s all ready-to-wehrmacht.
They never should have opened that second counter.
The shop looked into expansion, but it was quickly clear that an Eastern Front was a terrible idea.
Shah too thinks his shop will stand for the next 1,000 years.
Said the proprietor, “What do you mean Ahmedabad name choice?”
You wonderful bastard.
The Eva Braun pill box hats are to die for.
With their skinny jeans, you sometimes have to battle a bulge.
Is that their Trinity line? That shit is the bomb.
Yep, it also includes their V-2-neck t-shirt.
Hitler’s… if you can beat our prices I will shoot myself!
In retaliation some Jews opened up an all you can eat buffet joint named Gandhi.
They’ve only just noticed that their caps have got skulls on them.
I love this show just discovered it on Netflix!
The owner feels he’s in the Reich about the naming issue
Curry favor with the growing Nazi rap culture by opening HOLLA-cost.
Curry? What is that, some joke about Indian food? RACIST!
Ironically the issue has put the local jewish community all in the same camp.
Everything looks too tight. I couldn’t shop there. I’m just too Brauny.
Hitler?! Don’t hardly know h… *a hole opens up in the floor of Crappy’s office and a mob of drunken Slovaks pours out and fatally assaults him with copies of Fifty Shades of Grey covered in Jizz and regret.*
This whole naming disaster is a hindoozy.
Expansion was stunted when he found out the cafe next door had reinforced walls so he redirected through the Waffle house.
Check our blitzkreig tank tops, our u-boating loafers and our tiny mustache combs!
Check out the new Nein, Nein, Nein sale!
He should be careful he doesn’t get Sudetenland.
The proprietor thought the customers mentioning ‘that dam and sluice’ were referring to the local water ways.
If you have kids they have a great Hitler Youth section.
And you just know that there is a gaggle of History Channel producers tripping over their own dicks to be the first to make a show about this.
But Isn’t this a big popular chain? I heard they’ve totally invaded Poland.
If this place doesnt make it, will it have a “Goring Out of Business” sale?
Do they sell DachauNY Jeans
Those jeans are reich for any occasion
“Excuse me, can you point me to the Dresden rooms? I’d like to try on a SlaughterBlouse-Five.” – Overheard in competitive store, “Churchill.”
They’re totally invading the clothing market!
I’ll have you guys know that while Neville chamberlain doesn’t care for the name, he has no plans to challenge them on it.
Meh….India still educates their school children about history better than Texas does.
True, only because we have 2 years of Texas history compared to 1 yr of world history
Plus simplifying all events into 2 explanations….Bad: God’s Will. Good: George W. Bush did it.
Lars Von Trier sympathizes with the store while Kirsten Dunst sits next to him like a bitch.
“Ummm, eez theez cash register on? Kristen, pleez gihv me your til”
*phone rings*
HELLO? HELLO? DO YOU DIRTY RAGHEADS CARRY SWEATERS FOR BEAVER PUPPETS?
I heard they had a sister store across town called Hiroshima. It bombed.
A competing store, Maginot, released their own clothing line, but it did nothing to slow Hitler down.
All clothes come with a complimentary sample of their new detergent Zyclon B
Headline: Germany Chides India for Unhealthy Hitler Obsession*
*said without irony
Unhealthy Hitler Obsession,
See, also: England
Better shop soon as the sales are Goering, Goering, and gone.
You better Runstedt down to the store to get the best price this side of the Ganges.
Donitz you know, our selection of women’s accessories is beyond comPARISon.
Say “I Tojo it’s the best store around” to your friends, when they admire your fine clothing.
Shit wrong theater of the war.
/And with that, I’m finished
Wait, one more, you won’t be Stalin around after you say our bargains!
The prices on their designer jeans are hotter than an auschwitz oven.
The owner and the Jews should negotiate a final solution to the problem.
“Hitler” is the name of my yodelin choir.
Store policy is to answer the phone “Hi, Hitler”
What is it with Indians and Hitler. I used to work in north Mumbai on the fringes of slums, and this barber next door loved wearing his Hitler t-shirt, he just thought it was funny. “I love Hitler!” he would say, when pressed for comment. Whatever, he was a nice guy. But now I’m intrigued.
The French restaurant next door won’t Maginot what hit them when Hitler decides to expand.
I actually just registered for the sole reason of telling each and every commenter in this thread that you are all TRULY HYSTERICAL!!!! While overused is a ridiculous understatement of the term “LOL” I do not think I have laughed harder in this history of the internet than I did on this post!!! All of you are on the All Time Epic list going down in the annals of the web!
They have comics in the basement, too. Just watch out, the floor’s covered in Maustraps.