Hitler-Saluting Gnome Ignites Controversy

German prosecutors in Nuremberg have launched an investigation into whether an artist’s 14-inch tall gnome giving a stiff-armed Hitler salute violates the country’s strict laws against the use of Nazi symbols and Hitler salutes.

The creator of the exhibition, art professor Ottmar Hörl, told DPA of his shock at the reaction to his work. “I am completely stunned,” he said. “In 1942 it would have been the Nazis massacring me because of this piece.”

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