I went to Hampi some time ago. The hotel where I was staying used a rather imaginatively named padlock.
Yeah, you read that right.  It is a “Hitler Star” lock , 8 levers and “Hitler Tested – OK” !  While this is amusing at first, I am not sure how someone Jewish would feel.  Some googling reveals that this morbidly named brand is quite popular with sightings all over India.  It is in fact churned out at “Hitler lock enterprises” in Aligarh, the headquarters of the Indian lock industry.
This also reminded me of the Hari Sadu ad which was incredibly popular on TV a few years ago.
My feeling is that Indian’s overall know Hitler as a “bad person”, but have now come to associate his name with a mild rebuke which is hardly insulting. Â I feel that the majority of Indians are hardly aware of the horrific crimes perpetrated by this deranged man. Instead I’ve noticed some folks actually try to magnify Hitler’s connections with India by propagating his ridiculous Aryan theories and citing the use of the Swastika. Â Why ? Here is a Wall Street Journal article I found which does a good job at explaining this curious Indian fascination with Hitler.