Adolf Hitler wine investigation dropped by Austrian officials

AUSTRIAN prosecutors said overnight they have dropped a probe into a man selling wine and schnapps with pictures of Adolf Hitler and swastikas on the labels.

Heinz Rusch, a spokesman for the public prosecutor's office in Feldkirch, in the western Austrian province of Vorarlberg, said it could not be proven that the man, named in media reports as Roland Marte, was attempting to glorify the Nazis.

Instead the accused, who stopped selling the bottles as soon as prosecutors began investigating in December, simply believed it was a good business idea, Rusch said, advertising them as "nostalgic bottles with the greats of history."