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Santa with Outlawed Hitler Salute.

By Alex in Everything Else on Dec 4, 2006 at 4:58 pm


From The Largest Minority:

Miniature wooden Santa figures were removed from Rossmann stores, a German retail chain, after customers claimed they looked like they were giving the outlawed Hitler salute.

“We were astonished by the reaction,” Josef Lange, a spokesman for Rossmann said. “It looks like he’s just pointing up to the sky and we were surprised that anyone saw the so-called ‘Hitler salute’ in that. But we responded and had the entire inventory removed and destroyed.”

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  1. Phil
    Dec 5th, 2006 at 3:04 am

    Weirdly enough, a Santa in the same position was featured Monday evening on an episode of NBC's Studio 60.

  2. Lasse
    Dec 5th, 2006 at 8:44 am

    "we responded and had the entire inventory removed and destroyed."

    This sentence would sound great with at typical hollywood-nazi accent.

    But at least they didn't gas them. :-)

    (I can make these jokes because i am german myself ;-) )

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