Hitler-saluting garden gnome in the clear

[Guchi_Jnr]

Hitler-saluting garden gnome in the clear

German prosecutors say they have decided that displaying a golden garden gnome in a Nuremberg art gallery with its right hand raised in a Hitler salute was not illegal.

After a preliminary inquiry over the past week, prosecutors in the Bavarian city ruled that the 40-centimetre gnome is ridiculing the Nazis rather than promoting a return of the Third Reich.

"It is pretty clear that garden gnomes are silly and that they do silly things. In 1942 I would have been shot by the Nazis for this," prosecutors quoted the gnome's creator, artist Ottmar Hoerl, as saying.


http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/23/2633788.htm

I want one!!

[shadowstar]

At night, when everyone's asleep, it starts to move. And walk.

It knows how to get into your house.

[Sev]

It has scary eyes. I want to poke them out.

[StreakInTheSky]

Now imagine if Hitler had an army of those. D:

[redux]

^ I get the feeling they don't quite match up to his criteria...