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Glavas posing with the Hitler wines. Photo: Facebook.

The photographs of a smiling Glavas relaxing at a table with the wines labelled with pictures of the Nazi dictator were posted on his official Facebook page on Tuesday evening.

One bottle shows Hitler’s face and is labelled “Fuhrerwein”, while the other depicts the wartime German leader giving a Nazi salute and is labelled with the fascist slogan “Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuhrer”.

Glavas is currently awaiting retrial for alleged war crimes against Serb civilians in the city of Osijek in 1991.

The wines resemble Hitler-labelled bottles produced by Italian vintners Vina Lunardelli, which have been strongly criticised by the Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Centre.

The Simon Wiesenthal Centre called for a boycott of the company in 2013, urging people not to buy anything from “someone using the Nazi mass murderer as a blatant marketing tool”.

Some people commenting on Glavas’ Facebook photographs expressed approval, however. “A ‘like’ for the general and the wine,” one wrote, while another asked where such wine could be obtained.

Photo: Facebook

Facebook removed the Hitler photos, but Glavas then posted a picture of two bottles of wine with former Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito on the label.

“Does a wine named after one of the top ten criminals in world history disturb you?” he wrote in a caption for the photograph.

Glavas was released from custody in January after Croatia’s constitutional court overturned a previous verdict convicting him and ordered a retrial.

Since then he has been criticised on several occasions for his public statements and for comments posted on his Facebook page, which is administrated by his son Filip.

On the day of his release, a photo of five hanged people was posted on his Facebook page, with the caption: “The eighth commandment of God reads ‘do not bear false witness.’”

It was seen by some as a threat to witnesses in his trial, but was deleted after Croatian news website Index reported on it.

After his release, a welcome-home party was thrown in his honour in Osijek, during which he said that he “recharged batteries… for further challenges and struggles, because we have not performed all that we promised [before the war] in 1990”.

In one of the incidents of which Glavas was found guilty, a victim was tortured by having battery acid poured into his mouth, and the speech was seen by some observers as a threatening reference to the incident.

The Zagreb-based Youth Initiative for Human Rights NGO filed criminal charges against Glavas in February for “public incitement to violence and hatred” in his statements, although no progress has been made in the case since then.

The former general commanded the Osijek defence force in 1991-92 and was a high-ranking member of the Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ party who served as a member of parliament.

After leaving the HDZ and founding his own party, the Croatian Democratic Alliance of Slavonia and Baranja, prosecutors started investigating his alleged war crimes against Serbs in Osijek.

He was arrested in October 2006 over the so-called ‘Garage’ case, in which he was accused over the torture and murder of a civilian in front of a garage in 1991.

An additional indictment was raised in April 2007. The ‘Duct Tape” case was so named because victims were tied up with duct tape and executed on the Drava riverbank in Osijek in 1991-92.