Swedish TV duo quaff Hitler champagne in Kamprad tribute
Published: 25 Aug 11 15:16 CET | Print version
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Swedish TV comedy pair Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson cracked open a bottle of champagne once belonging to Adolf Hitler on Wednesday.
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The bottle of champagne dates from 1937 and the zany duo "Filip and Fredrik", as they are known, acquired the item at auction in the UK a few years ago in connection with the filming of a previous TV show.
The pair invested 23,000 kronor ($3,640) on the bottle which was discovered in Hitler's bunker in Berlin at the end of the war in 1945.
Among the guests invited to share a toast in honour of the under fire Ikea figure head included wine expert Edward Blom, as well as Swedish pensioner Eskil Carlsson, who gained nationwide attention this week after he treated his neighbours to a cut of beef which had been stored in a glass jar for over 70 years.
After an extended struggle to open the vintage bottle, and a great deal of dithering after reports that the bottle was said to contain cyanide, the assembled hosts and guests were all given a taste.
"Hitler's corpse in the Russian archives is probably nicer," was Edward Blom's assessment.
Filip Hammar concluded that the hefty sum shelled out for the morbid memo of the Nazi dictator was not money well spent and much of the champagne was in turn left to fester in the Ikea glasses which had been symbolically acquired for the occasion.
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I presume all those against the Ikea founder don't purchase any goods from Ikea or Germany as many of the older company members there may have been under pressure to become nazi supporters too.
Why waste good wine, as for Kamprad he has employeed probably 100,00 people and apart from ABBA without him ie. IKEA; Sweden would NOT have any international profile at all.
WW2 and the following decade is old news and folk should really move on, only those who lived through it can justifiably complain.
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And when the news that Kamprad had been i activ nazi they whanted to "mock" him. so they drank the champagne they allready owned to get more atention.
if you see the results: that both when thwy bought it and drank it they got alot of atention from media.
and it's working becuaus hitler is a hated man but still intresting.
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They will need several cases of the stuff if they are going to drink a bottle everytime someone "reveals" Kamprad's teenage antics. The Local reports this "news" about every three months.
Lighten up - it is only a (very dry) joke... I guess one needs to be a Swede to see that. ;) Or maybe some British would recognize it as well (I remember John Cleese once thought in an interview that British and Swedish people had the same sense of humor).