(Jewish Group) Owners of Ukrainian cafe housed in a former synagogue say logo resembling Nazi symbol
Owners of Ukrainian cafe housed in a former synagogue say logo resembling Nazi symbol was a font gone wrongmistake
The owners of a Ukrainian cafe housed in a former synagogue said they worked two lightning rods into the logo to advertise the reenergizing qualities of the coffee there.
Instead they waded into a political minefield because they ended up reproducing the symbol of the SS, Nazi Germanys murderous elite force.
On Tuesday, the owners said the whole thing is a case of a font gone wrong and apologized to anyone whose feelings may have been hurt. It was a trial that was never fully implemented, they said, and will drop the logo.
Cafe Escobar in Chervnitsi, near Lviv, introduced the logo on July 25 in a video that showed a filter holder emblazoned with the letters Essco, in which the Ss closely resemble the SS logo also designed to evoke two lightning rods.
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