Nazi-themed café promoting swastikas in Indonesia reopens after a year of its closure
Bandung, Indonesia: Nazi-themed café promoting swastikas in Indonesia has reopened after a year of its closure. The controversial Nazi-theme café was closed last July after an international outrage against this Café that promotes swastikas as projected theme of its interior decoration that also includes a portrait of Adolf Hitler, people dressed in Nazi uniforms and a mock interrogation room.
The name of café is SoldatenKaffee (The Soldiers’ Café) after the name of a popular WWII hangout for German soldiers in Paris. Café was originally opened in 2011. It is located in the city of Bandung, the capital of West Java province and the third-largest city in Indonesia.
The café was shut down in July 2013 by its owner, Henry Mulyana, when media published articles on the café that sparked a global backlash.
Now SoldatenKaffee is again operational from June 21 with all the Nazi symbols intact and remained including the swastikas and propaganda posters with the Nazi symbols. However café has broaden its theme. Now décor includes some British, French, the US, Japanese and Dutch military items including posters of former British PM Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Hitler’s portrait now hangs on the walls alongside theirs.
