Global Ire Against Hitler Cafe
The resturant was inaugurated last week by the city’s top officials and celebrities. The restaurant owner said he had not realised the Nazi theme would upset people. "It’s just that we wanted to give a different name. We wanted a good campaign. That’s the main reason. Nothing else,"
Daniel Zonshine, Israel's consul general in Mumbai, said he had been receiving calls from concerned and irate Jews across the world.
He added that there was considerable anger over the eatery's name in Israel and even in Germany, after people had learnt of the Kharghar eatery's name through the internet.
Zonshine said he would send letters to the authorities in Navi Mumbai and Mumbai asking for the restaurant's name to be changed and that letters would also be sent to top officials of the German and American consulates.
Israeli consulate officials also indicated that they might take legal action against the restaurant.
However, even as the managing director of Hitler's Cross, Puneet S Sabhlok, reiterated on Tuesday that the name would not be changed at any cost, legal experts said it might be better to gently persuade the restaurant's owner to bring about the change since it may be difficult to prove that he had violated any laws.
But a determined Zonshine said, "This kind of publicity for a restaurant is not in good taste and for good reason. I am personally quite angry about this.
I remember as a child I never saw my grandfather and grandmother because they were killed in the Nazi concentration camps. In fact, a lot of my relatives met the same fate."
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