Nazi-themed coffee shop reopens in Indonesia

A Nazi-themed Soldier Cafe in Indonesia opened in 2011. It was pushed to the forefront in July 2013 when a British journalist living in the area published an article. As international condemnation intensified, the local government had to ask shopkeepers to close the coffee shop.

According to a report in the French newspaper Liberation on June 22, the coffee shop recently regained its strength and opened again. However, there are still thousands of Nazi symbols and portraits of Hitler on the walls of the coffee shop.

The owner of the "soldiers Cafe" in Bandung, southeast of Jakarta, Henry Mulyana, was accused of inciting racial hatred and was forced to close under threat. But this time, in order to get rid of international criticism, Muana extended the coffee shop theme throughout the second World War and added portraits of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and former Soviet leader Stalin to the shop wall.

Reported that Muana's lawyer had said that after the coffee shop renovation, there will be no Nazi logo. But on the opening day, three big eagles with SS emblems were still seen hanging on the wall. However, Muana still claimed that the theme of the coffee shop did not revolve around the Nazis, but on the theme of World War II, and that all the decorations in the Soldier Cafe were legal. Muana said that many customers from Europe have not found anything wrong, and we all look at these decorations from a historical perspective.

However, the report pointed out that dozens of young Indonesians in military uniforms also participated in the opening, one of whom also wore an armband with a Nazi logo of ten thousand characters. It is reported that some people pose as prisoners in the "interrogation room" in the coffee shop. Mega, a 25-year-old woman, claimed that this was just a business form for her, not an ideological issue, and that many intellectuals and people interested in World War II visited the coffee shop.