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\"Hanukkah-Swastika<\/a><\/p>\n

The Kansas City Star <\/a><\/strong>reports:<\/p>\n

A Walgreen\u2019s customer in California saw a blue and silver roll of gift wrap that at first glance looked like Hannukah paper.<\/p>\n

At second glance, she saw a swastika in the design.<\/p>\n

Kansas City-based Hallmark Cards Inc., which licensed the wrapping paper rolls, heard about the problem Sunday night and alerted its retailers on Monday to remove the design from their shelves.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe apologize for the oversight and apologize to anyone who was offended. That obviously was not our intent,\u201d said Hallmark spokeswoman Julie Elliott. \u201cIt was an oversight on our part to not notice the intersecting lines that could be seen as a swastika pattern.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elliott said the gift wrap was created based on a design in the Hallmark archives that itself was based on an old Chinese vase. In some cultures, the interlocking lines were a symbol of good luck and prosperity, but it fell into mass disfavor after the Nazi regime used it.<\/p>\n

Hallmark has licensed the design in different colors, and it was not intended to be gift wrap for Hannukah, Elliott said. She said it appeared that the Walgreen\u2019s store in Northridge, Calif., where the woman complained, had put two rolls in its Hannukah display because of its blue and silver colors.<\/p>\n

That store immediately removed the two rolls, and Walgreens, which distributed the product, has stopped its retailers from selling the design.<\/p>\n

A story about the incident, first posted on the ABC News website, drew heavy comment, mostly from people who said the swastika was difficult to detect in the maze-like design and labeled it \u201cmuch ado about nothing.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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