Hallmark pulls gift wrapping over swastika claim
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Someone in America thinks Hallmark is secretly embracing Nazis and Hallmark is too skittish too just say, "sometimes intersecting lines are simply intersecting lines."
According to the Kansas City Star, this gift wrapping has a Nazi swastika.
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“We apologize for the oversight and apologize to anyone who was offended. That obviously was not our intent,” said Hallmark spokeswoman Julie Elliott.
The company, which says the pattern is based on a vase pattern from China, has ordered stores to remove the giftwrap.
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