A Swiss restaurant and supermarket chain is apologizing to customers and has severed ties with the company that supplies dairy creamer packets for coffee, after the creamers showed up featuring images Benito Mussolini and the absolute worst person in history, Adolf Hitler.

“I can’t tell you how these labels got past our controls,” said Tristan Cerf, spokesman for the Swiss retail giant Migros.  “Usually the labels have pleasant images like trains, landscapes and dogs – nothing polemic that can pose a problem.”

People in Switzerland collect the peel-away tops of the creamers, as they’re often decorated with collectable images; usually non-controversial images, like art works, nature scenes, or civic heraldry, that sort of thing.  The new ones were supposed to have reproductions of vintage cigar labels, among which were the images of Hitler and Mussolini, who apparently had cigars named after them before they plunged much of the world into bloodshed and chaos.

Migros apologized for the “unforgivable incident” and withdrew about 2,000 containers.  “Whoever made this mistake was not thinking properly,” Cerf said, “You cannot put Pol Pot or a terrorist on a milk creamer. It is unacceptable.”  Migros fired its supplier, Karo-Versand, whose chief executive said the Hitler pics were “unproblematic” and doesn’t understand what all of the hubbub is about.

“Of course it was bad, what happened under Hitler, but you cannot ignore this part of history,” said Karo’s Peter Waelchli.  “I have no problem with the images, but I can understand it concerns certain people.”