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Hitler T-Shirt for sale in UK

A HOLOCAUST survivor has hit out at the insensitivity of traders selling a Hitler T-shirt in Camden Town.

George Clare is furious the £5 T-shirt, which displays the dictator making a Nazi salute and a map of Europe with the heading Hitler's European Tour 1939-1945, is being sold at the area's markets.

The 86-year-old, who lives in College Crescent, Swiss Cottage, escaped the Holocaust but lost both his parents in the atrocity.

He said: "The T-shirt glorifies the biggest criminal of the last century. And why? And for what?"
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