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JC Penney's Hitler look-alike tea kettle is sold out

The US store denied that the kettle looked like the Nazi dictator and said the resemblance was entirely “unintentional”.

(Image: JC Penney/MichaelGrave.com)

THE AMERICAN STORE JC Penney has come under fire this week after Reddit users pointed out that one of their kettles resembled Adolf Hitler.

JCP denied that the kettle looked like the Nazi dictator and said the resemblance was entirely “unintentional”.

At the moment, the $40 Michael Graves designed kitchen utensil has sold out on the JC Penney site. It was out put on eBay for $199.99, but it also sold out there!

The kettle looks like it has sweeping side-parted, black hair, a mustache and the spout resembles a saluting arm. (Hitler image: History In A Hour/Flickr)

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    Mute DublinCity
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    May 29th 2013, 6:16 PM

    That would go well with my Eva Braun coffee pot.

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    Mute Joseph McGranaghan
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    May 29th 2013, 10:26 PM

    Only for show…

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    Mute Leslie Alan Rock
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    May 29th 2013, 6:23 PM

    Heil have a cup please

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    Mute Leigh Power
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    May 30th 2013, 8:23 AM

    Reich now?

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    Mute Hakuin Murphy
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    May 29th 2013, 6:52 PM

    $199.99 on eBay! That’s a bit reich!

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    Mute Oliver Walker
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    May 29th 2013, 6:43 PM

    I do nazi the resemblance

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    Mute Paul Callaghan
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    May 29th 2013, 6:51 PM

    Definitely a product of the Nazi Partea

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    Mute David
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    May 29th 2013, 6:17 PM

    I once saw a pot that looked like Pol.

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    Mute Darragh Ó Tuathail
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    May 29th 2013, 6:19 PM

    Love it

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    Mute David Boyce
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    May 29th 2013, 6:11 PM

    A storm in a teacup

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    Mute Eamonn Casey
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    May 29th 2013, 7:55 PM

    Is that the final solution or will there be a redesign?

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    Mute Eamon
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    May 29th 2013, 9:18 PM

    I asked the shop assistant “Where can I get one of these?” He told me to “head towards the back of the shop and take the third Reich.”

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    Mute The Polar Bear
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    May 29th 2013, 6:09 PM

    A kettle that looks like Hitler. I don’t see it.

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    Mute DublinLad
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    May 29th 2013, 6:35 PM

    Turn your phone sideways.

    It’ll be as clear as day then…

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    Mute Elizabeth Gibson
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    May 29th 2013, 6:40 PM

    It’s all to do with the handle of the kettle and the knob on the lid, comic hitler.

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    Mute Elizabeth Gibson
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    May 29th 2013, 6:41 PM

    Should say look at the white background through the handle

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    Mute DublinLad
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    May 29th 2013, 6:49 PM

    Stevie Wonder can see the bloody resemblance!

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    Mute ieoinu
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    May 29th 2013, 9:06 PM

    Too soon Barry, too soon!!

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    Mute Niamh May
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    May 29th 2013, 9:43 PM

    Polar bear, step away from your device and have a look from a distance. It worked for me.

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    Mute Ciaran Pollard
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    May 30th 2013, 12:55 AM

    Now it just looks like Hitler laying on his side…

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    Mute Ciara Dowdall
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    May 29th 2013, 6:48 PM

    Looks like they’re in a bit of hot water over this…

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    Mute Ann M Kirwan
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    May 29th 2013, 6:25 PM

    How the hell did they come to that conclusion ?

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    Mute Padraig Stapleton
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    May 29th 2013, 10:50 PM

    Arbeit macht tay.

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    Mute Patty McGonagle
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    May 29th 2013, 6:41 PM

    lets hope the tea party don’t see that kettle!

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    Mute Darragh O Meara
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    May 29th 2013, 7:48 PM

    I’d say the designer got a little giggle when he realised. No better way to sell a few kettles though. You couldn’t buy advertisement like that.

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    Mute Slagrider
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    May 29th 2013, 10:00 PM

    Right, you know Henry Ford,as in Ford motors? Henry was the first non german to be inducted to the nazi party. Anyways, you know Fords car adverts on telly? The slogan “Go Further” ya, if you take out the T ( as in tea,model T ) in further,and swap the R and H around…what do you get?? Spooky shit there man!

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    Mute Linda Fegan
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    May 29th 2013, 10:07 PM

    Are you stoned?!!

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    Mute ieoinu
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    May 29th 2013, 9:07 PM

    I want one!!!!!

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    Mute Lee Maxwell
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    May 29th 2013, 11:08 PM

    Jeez do people have nothing better to do than complain about a kettle?

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    Mute Maurice Riordan
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    May 30th 2013, 2:29 PM

    They do indeed, Lee. For myself, I have been roaring at my cutlery drawer all morning. Much more worthwhile and less intrusive. That spatula is some bastard, it has to be said.

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    Mute Cathy Conley-Portka
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    May 29th 2013, 10:11 PM

    struggling to see the resemblence

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