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German man jailed for teaching his dog to perform Nazi salute
Ha'aretz ^ | Last update - 17:46 23/12/2007 | Ha'aretz staff

Posted on 12/23/2007 8:05:09 AM PST by Cinnamon Girl

A German man with a Hitler obsession has been jailed for five months for teaching his pet dog to perform a Nazi salute, according to the British tabloid The Sun.

The paper reports that the dog, named Adolf, had been taught by owner "Roland T" to lift his paw sharply into the air when he heard the words "Heil Hitler." The former car salesman was reportedly caught after he boasted of the trick to police.

Performing a Nazi salute is outlawed in Germany, as is Nazi insignia and Holocaust denial.

According to The Sun, "Roland T" planned to have Adolf put to sleep to mark the anniversary of Hitler's suicide in 1945.

(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Germany
KEYWORDS: nazi
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To: Atlantic Bridge
BuHuHaHa! As always our authorities are complete idiots....Regards from southern Germany!

You might have won the award for the most morally bankrupt poster of FR to date. Without doubt, the scariest people I have ever met in Germany and God's wide world are the disaffected dirt at the bottom of the social scale (and yes Germany has a very strong class system even today) who see their salvation in a resurgence of Nazism.

With absolute disrespect for your idiot position, there is nothing funny at all about a German social and mental disorder that between war and the holocaust sent tens of millions to an untimely death.

Your attempts to excuse this or make light of it are unpardonably ignorant and offensive.

21 posted on 12/23/2007 8:48:00 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: spokeshave

Yikes.


22 posted on 12/23/2007 8:48:08 AM PST by jrooney (Ron Paul makes Jimmy Carter look tough and Dennis Kucinich look sane.)
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To: Cinnamon Girl
According to some unconfirmed reports, the dog has also been writing checks to the Ron Paul campaign

LOL - good one!
23 posted on 12/23/2007 8:55:21 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Ron Paul put the cuckoo in my Cocoa Puffs)
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To: Zakeet

Is Lewinski next?


24 posted on 12/23/2007 8:56:06 AM PST by aroundabout
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To: Cinnamon Girl
www.catsthatlooklikehitler.com
25 posted on 12/23/2007 8:58:26 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: clamper1797

Right now the owner had better teach his dog to say,

“I know nuttink! I hear nuttink! I see nuttink!”

;^)


26 posted on 12/23/2007 8:59:12 AM PST by elcid1970
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To: Cinnamon Girl; martin_fierro; Charles Henrickson

Ich bin ein Pawlifter


27 posted on 12/23/2007 9:02:52 AM PST by mikrofon (Sieg Heel)
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To: Cinnamon Girl
The former car salesman was reportedly caught after he boasted of the trick to police.

That ranks him high on the Dummkopf scale. It would be like showing your bong collection to the police here.

And the dog should be punished too. I don't accept any of that "I was only following orders" excuse. < /sarc>

28 posted on 12/23/2007 9:08:37 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Government is the hired help - not the boss. When politicians forget that they must be fired.)
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To: mikrofon

Shouldn’t that be “Ich bin Pawlifter”?


29 posted on 12/23/2007 9:10:02 AM PST by magslinger (cranky right-winger)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
It’s Kitler!

That is funny!

30 posted on 12/23/2007 9:22:53 AM PST by varon (Allegiance to the constitution, always. Allegiance to a political party, never.)
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To: AndyJackson
Uh well - in difference to you I probably know a few real Nazis. Dangerous and intelligent Nazis. As a German who was born into a family with many interesting contacts I even had the "privilege" to meet a few of the real "old" Nazis.

They had immense influence in western Germany, but in the meantime they are all dust. We Germans overcame nazism through time. Practically nobody of the contemporary generation feels responsible anymore. The Holocaust happened more than 60 years ago and we are over it. The "common guilt" of Germany might be something foreigners believe into, but not we Germans. We are aware that our country has to deal with a dirty past and nameless crimes, but all the causers are practically death. It is simply over.

You could compare it with the genocide of Indians in the US. This is also over and history.

Since we are the ones who define our attitudes it is up to us to deal with such harmless BS like dogs that are called "Adolf". Who cares? We should stop to carry over the job of the Gestapo. Hitler for sure would not have been amused if a dog would have been named after him. Doing so is quite insulting in Germany. Our police has better things to do than to waste time and money to such foolishness.

31 posted on 12/23/2007 9:26:14 AM PST by Atlantic Bridge (Avoid boring people!)
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To: Tijeras_Slim; Constitution Day
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32 posted on 12/23/2007 9:31:19 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Cinnamon Girl



33 posted on 12/23/2007 9:33:20 AM PST by dfwgator (11+7+15=3 Heismans)
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To: Atlantic Bridge
I have the highest regard for German culture, actually, and the issue I raise is not an issue of trying to perpetuate a sense of common guilt.

The problem I pose is to understand not who were influential leaders in forming the ideas underlying Nazism, but the social forces that made that point of view acceptable and brought the Nazis into power over the bodies, live and dead, of most decent, cultured and educated Germans at that time. It was a politics of disafection, certainly, and England France and communist Russia bore no small part of the responsibility.

34 posted on 12/23/2007 9:37:04 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Cinnamon Girl
Performing a Nazi salute is outlawed in Germany, as is Nazi insignia and Holocaust denial.

Then why didn't they put the dog in jail?!

Run rings around them logically, I do!

35 posted on 12/23/2007 9:40:51 AM PST by Erasmus (I've never been divorced, if you don't count my relationship with reality.)
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To: Cinnamon Girl

Maybe they’ll commute his sentence if he teaches his dog to crap on a swastika.


36 posted on 12/23/2007 9:45:39 AM PST by manic4organic (Send a care package through USO today.)
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To: Atlantic Bridge

Well said.


37 posted on 12/23/2007 9:47:53 AM PST by patton (cuiquam in sua arte credendum)
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To: Cinnamon Girl

Maybe he could’ve focused on teaching the dog to do its business when he said “Mohammed”, the name of another brutal warlord that people are still bowing to and killing for over a thousand years later.


38 posted on 12/23/2007 9:57:50 AM PST by weegee (If Bill Clinton can sit in on Hillary's Cabinet Meetings then GWBush should ask to get to sit in too)
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To: AndyJackson
The problem I pose is to understand not who were influential leaders in forming the ideas underlying Nazism, but the social forces that made that point of view acceptable and brought the Nazis into power over the bodies, live and dead, of most decent, cultured and educated Germans at that time.

Well to answer this is easy. The thing is that most Germans of the beginning 30ties were no educated people. They were simply not mature enough for democracy after following imperators, kings and nobelities for hundreds of years. The German Weimarer republic was only 15 years old when Hitler and his circus happened and there was no tradition for democracy. Most people were insecure in the economical difficult times (Germany had a terrible unemployment rate in 1932) and suffered from the treaty of Versailles. They were looking for easy solutions. Hitler was such a easy solution. As a exceptionally gifted speaker he dazzled the common people. This was the reason why 33% voted for Hitler in 1932.

BTW - We Germans deal with simular problems today in eastern Germany. To someone like me it is not understandable that there are 30% population that are dumb enough to vote for the SED (now called PDS, die LINKE), the former communist party of Erich Honecker. Of course there are some nazis in Germany left, but they do not play a practical role anymore in contemporary politics. Their party, the NPD is more or less a idiotic possibility of weird kids to shock their parents.

39 posted on 12/23/2007 10:03:06 AM PST by Atlantic Bridge (Avoid boring people!)
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To: AndyJackson

“With absolute disrespect for your idiot position, there is nothing funny at all about a German social and mental disorder...”

Dang dude, take it easy. Your spittle sprayed me through my computer screen. There are plenty of posters on this thread making “light” of the Nazis (Hitler playing a banjo???), but you single out the German poster for your out of proportion rant. One might be lead to think that the mental disorder on display here is not a German one.

I would think that having the same screen-namesake as Andy “Trail of Tears” Jackson might cause you to think twice before speaking once about holocausts. There are sins and there are sins of fathers. Figure out the difference.


40 posted on 12/23/2007 10:08:09 AM PST by Owl558 (Pardon my spelling)
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