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June 7, 2013Accidental Hitler Teapot Sells Big at JC Penney

Michael Graves, one of America's most influential postmodern architects, is somewhat amused he is now Internet famous for a completely unintentional design—the so-called Hitler teapot. Graves said...

May 31, 2013Anti-Defamation League, Mayor of Culver City Respond to J.C. Penney's Hitler Tea Kettle Billboard

A tea kettle designed by architect Michael Graves, who has a long history of designing consumer products that don't resemble a saluting Hitler, has J.C. Penney back in the news for the wrong reasons yet again. After the Hitler tea kettle story went viral, J.C. Penney took to Twitter to reassure the public there was no intended connection between the product and the Nazi leader.

May 28, 2013Kettle That Looks Like Hitler Brews Trouble for J.C. Penney

Bemused motorists took photographs of the huge J.C. Penney billboard advertising a tea kettle as they drove past it on the 405 Interstate highway near Culver City in California, one of America's busiest stretches of roads. "That Hitler looks like a kettle," commented one user of Reddit, one of several websites where the image was posted over the weekend.

May 28, 2013Penney’s ‘Hitler’ tea kettle billboard causes social media uproar

New York -- J.C. Penney on Tuesday turned to social media to deny that a tea kettle being advertised on a billboard on the 405 Interstate near Culver City,...