Word: salesfolk
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Dates: during 1996-1996
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...boots and bags are black, shiny and made of tough hide--tough enough to be labeled "Nazi leather" by some enterprising salesfolk. The words are offensive to begin with. But in Israel, where the Holocaust is living memory, they are abominable. The daily Yediot Aharonot created a stir as it revealed the use of the appellation by a boutique belonging to the trendy Tel Aviv chain Grosso Modo. To reporter Sigalit Shahor's astonishment, a clerk boasted, "It is high quality and doesn't get dirty--all the boots worn by the Nazis in World War II were made...
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