Baker apologizes for swastika cakes
By Reuters
VIENNA - An Austrian baker, under investigation for icing cakes with Nazi symbols, has apologized to the head of a Holocaust awareness group for causing offence.
The cake-maker met with the head of the Austria Mauthausen Committee (MKOe), which has called for the bakery to be banned.
“I called him because from media reports I got the impression that he knew what he had done was wrong and that he was sorry for it,” MKOe head Willy Mernyi said in a statement on the committee’s website.
Austrian law bans the use of Nazi symbols. The baker has said he was only making what a customer wanted.
At the meeting, Mernyi gave the baker a book about the Mauthausen concentration camp and in return was presented with a traditional cake decorated with Jewish and Christian symbols.
I guess this guy has changed his tune since that Youtube video was made. I certainly understand a guy trying to make a buck but I think anything including Nazis or swastikas should be grounds for putting the brakes on. I mean, you may make a few dollars making cakes for Nazis but in the long run you’re going to end up on the losing end, especially by losing all the bagel and latke business.
P.S. – The baker should have known his excuse wasn’t going to fly. The first guy at the Nuremburg Trials tried to use “I was just doing my job.” If it didn’t fly then it isn’t flying now.
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