Tuesday 5 February 2013

Jewish Author Tuvia Tenenbom under investigation in Germany for Hitler salute

Israeli-born Jewish author Tuvia Tenenbom is in trouble in Germany for raising his arm in the Hitler salute, which is banned in the country.



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Tenenbom told the Magdeburg Volksstimme newspaper he had made the gesture toward a group of 900 neo-Nazis demonstrating there on Jan. 12 in order to provoke them. He was accompanied by a TV news camera team.

Tenenbom is now under investigation for using unconstitutional symbols, after the neo-Nazis pointed him out to police.

Nazi propaganda, including gestures, songs and symbols, are illegal with very few exceptions, mostly for academic use. Most neo-Nazis in Germany play the game carefully, avoiding exact replicas of Nazi propaganda and - instead of denying the Holocaust - questioning its severity and saying that German suffering was worse.

Tenenbom's new book, an exploration of anti-Semitism in Germany titled "I Sleep in Hitler's Room," is a bestseller in Germany. He is founding artistic director of the Jewish Theater of New York.

 http://www.jta.org/news/article/2013/02/05/3118791/author-tuvia-tenenbom-under-investigation-in-germany-for-hitler-salute#When:15:03:00Z

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