A" Heil Hitler" Egg
According to the Manchester Guardian, a grocer at Farnham, Surrey, was astonished recently on opening a case of Danish eggs to find the words "Heil Hitler" written in indelible pencil on some of them. One of the eggs was photographed and communications were made to the Danish Legation in London, which in turn took the matter up with the Foreign Office at Copenhagen. This explanation was given in trade quarters. The eggs were packed on a farm near the Schleswig frontier. They were intended for a German importer, and a farm worker wrote the German salutation on two of them. As the German importer could not pay for a previous supply this case of eggs was diverted to England and ultimately reached the Farnham grocer. The incident recalls the arrival at Covent Garden of a consignment of Brazilian oranges wrapped in tissue paper bearing a picture of Hitler with the "Heil Hitler" printed underneath. Here again the consignment reached London because the German consignee could not pay. It was learned that the oranges were wrapped in the way described on the instruction of the German importer.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 14, 29 September 1939, Page 52
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190A" Heil Hitler" Egg New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 14, 29 September 1939, Page 52
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