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U.S. Army Commissary Gets Packages of Cookies Stamped with Swastikas

January 29, 1962
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About 200 packages of cookies manufactured and packaged in the United States, stamped with the swastika symbol, were discovered by an American officer here today in the United States Army commissary;

The sales price on the packages, said the officer, had been superimposed by the swastika; The officer said he presumed the swastika stamp had been applied in the United States, and not in Germany;

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