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Thursday, January 4, 2018
German man sentenced to prison for making fun of Holocaust
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleBERLIN — A 32-year-old German neo-Nazi is sentenced to 18 months in prison for incitement after posting a picture of a miniature of the Auschwitz death camp on Facebook with an offensive caption.
Judge Manfred Weber at the district court in Hohenstein-Ernstthal in eastern Germany tells the man Thursday “you made fun of Auschwitz survivors — that’s very bad.”
The German news agency dpa reports that the sentence of the previously convicted neo-Nazi also took into consideration his earlier charge for criminal assault and the posting of a photo montage of Adolf Hitler in combination with a swastika and firecrackers. The display of Nazi emblems is illegal in Germany.
The man from Glauchau in Saxony, whose name was not given in line with German privacy rules, can appeal the conviction.
— AP
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