Cafe Hitler.

Samizdata highlights a bar named after the world's greatest mass murderer ever, Mao, with a quote from one of their commentators:

Kill six millions Jews in Germany, your name becomes a synonym with evil. Kill between 44 and 72 million Chinese, you get a café named after you. It's a funny old world, eh?

Actually there are bars named after Hitler or the Nazis, just not anywhere in the West where knowledge of his atrocities is almost universal. There are actually several Nazi themed institutions in South Korea:

Seoul - Israel's ambassador expressed outrage on Monday over a Nazi-themed bar in a South Korean city, calling it "revolting".

A report on the bar was published in Monday's Korea Herald, which carried a photo of a flaming-red swastika decorating the establishment's entrance, while a poster of a Nazi soldier wielding a rifle is displayed inside, the paper said.

"I think it's a disgrace, it's really revolting," ambassador Yigal Caspi told AFP.

Caspi said he was especially angry at the bar owner's explanation that he adopted the theme just to be different.

This isn't the first time that a controversy* over Nazi bars in South Korea** have hit international headlines. It isn't because Koreans are a nation of neo nazis, but because there is a level of ignorance about Hitler's crimes that doesn't exist in the West. The same level of ignorance that exists about the atrocities of Mao in the West.

* Is it really a controversy if almost everyone is on one side of the debate?

** I shouldn't single out South Korea, the same frivolous attitude to the Nazis exists in several East Asian countries, including Taiwan and Hong Kong.

{ Via Stephen Pollard }