German man teaches dog Nazi salute

[Chicago Democrat]

German man teaches dog Nazi salute


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Feb. 5, 2004 | BERLIN (AP) -- A man who taught his dog the stiff-arm Nazi salute was given a 13-month suspended sentence Thursday for shouting "Sieg Heil" in public and wearing a T-shirt with a picture of Adolf Hitler on it.

A Berlin administrative court found the 54-year-old man, who was only identified as Ronald T., guilty of displaying Nazi symbols and insulting a policeman last March.


Police had stopped the man after he was heard shouting the Nazi slogan. While the police watched, the man also commanded his dog, named Adolf, to raise its right paw upon hearing the command "Do the salute." Authorities initially pressed charges for training the dog to perform the salute, but they were later dropped.

Displaying Nazi symbols in public is a crime in Germany under laws meant to prevent any recurrence of Nazism.

[BayCityProgressive]

1. People who would still do this disgust me.

[cprise]

2. This is really The Onion, right?

Or Mad TV or something...

:o

[DemoTex]

3. Or Texas

eh?

[Chicago Democrat]

4. No Its Salon.com printing an AP story no lie

http://salon.com/news/wire/2004/02/05/nazi_dog/index.html

I wouldn't lie to you brother.

[Endangered Specie]

5. Actually, I find the fact that he got locked up disgusting...

Germany does not have 100% free speech, one cannot possess/distrubute/etc any nazi symbols or slogans at all (not even for WWII games). Despite how much I hate Nazis, I still believe in free speech over what I may think of it.

And besides, when some freeper/evangelical or the like pisses me off, I like to give em a little right-arm-stretch.

[Jim Sagle]

7. I don't . Fuck'm.

[R Hickey]

6. Germany is full of the most interesting people, and dogs too.

First they give a slap on the wrist to their best known cannibal, and now this.

As a boy, I once owned a pure bred German Shepard dog named Fritz. I too taught the animal to give the Hitler-salute, but the dog and I had a secret agreement, where instead of saying "Salute Hitler," I would merely say "Shake."

[david_vincent]

8. I look at it like this:

In Texas and other places down South, there are people who will take every opportunity (and then some) to proclaim "We ain't wrong and we
ain't sorry." (to quote one of their websites). These people are
unable to accept the fact that the Confederacy lost.
Germany is just developing its own strain of idiot rednecks. Let's see, the War of Northern Aggression ended 139 years ago, and WWII ended 59 years ago. Both of these groups strike me as similar to the
weirdos in the north of Ireland who are still trying to rub their
neighbors' noses in the outcome of a battle that happened centuries ago. The major difference is that the German Nazi wannabes and the American rebel wannabes are champions of long-buried losers, rather
than winners. Why can't all of these people stop living in the distant past?

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