What Not to Do in Berlin: A Nazi Salute

Two Chinese tourists have been arrested in Berlin accused of making the Nazi salute outside the German parliament.

Media Lied about “Nazi Salute” at Our Rally: PROOF

Ezra Levant looks at the laughably absurd allegation by Vice, BuzzFeed and others that someone made a Nazi salute at TheRebel.media rally for free speech.

Nazi Salute 'Not Always Punishable' as Racial Discrimination, Swiss Court Rules

An anti-racism law in 1995 forbids the public display and
dissemination of racist symbol, but only in cases when they are
used to promoted racist ideologies

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Nazi salute not illegal racial discrimination if done as personal statement, court in Switzerland rules

A Nazi salute is not illegal racial discrimination provided it is intended as a personal statement, Switzerland's top court ruled on Wednesday.

The Federal Tribunal's ruling, entitled "Hitler salute in public not always punishable," said the gesture is a crime only if someone is using it to try to spread racist ideology to others, not simply declaring one's own conviction.

The ruling by the Lausanne-based court overturned a lower court's conviction last year of a man who was charged with racial discrimination after he took part in an August 2010 demonstration with 150 participants.

The demonstration was held a week after the Swiss National Day on the famous Ruetli Meadow above Lake Lucerne where, according to legend, the modern Swiss Confederation was born in 1291. » | AP | Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Class Greets German Twin Town Visitors with 'Shameful' Nazi Salute
MAIL ONLINE: A group of German teenagers were stunned when English students from their 'twin town' school greeted them with with the Nazi salute.

Students from the Community College in Whitstable, Kent, raised their hands in the 'Heil Hitler' salute, also known as the Hitler salute, as the German students entered their classroom.

The students, from the town of Borken, said they were extremely offended by the gesture.

Nazi symbols and Hitler salutes have been illegal in Germany since the end of World War II. >>> Daily Mail Reporter | Thursday, June 10, 2010

Uniforms and Nazi Salutes at Terre'Blanche Funeral
Some among the congregation performed Nazi salutes during the service. Photograph: Times Online
TIMES ONLINE: Thousands of followers of Eugene Terre’Blanche, the murdered white supremacist, attended his funeral amid tight security today.

Mourners, many dressed in combat gear, sang the apartheid-era national anthem as the coffin entered the church. Some among the congregation performed Nazi salutes during the service.

Other who could not fit inside the church filled the streets of the small farming town of Ventersdorp, 62 miles (100km) west of Johannesburg.

South Africa’s pre-apartheid flag and Terre'Blanche's party's flag, which resembles the Nazi swastika, fluttered from pickup trucks in the surrounding streets.

Reverend Ferdie Devenir told the congregation that Mr Terre’Blanche had been “a good leader”.

“The world was against him, they looked for the bad things about him.”

Two of Mr Terre’Blanche’s black workers have been charged with beating and hacking him to death on his farm last Saturday.

Police suspect the murder was financially rather than politically motivated but the killing has exposed the country's persistent racial divide 16 years after the end of white minority rule.

Helicopters circled above the streets and police were out in force. Few black South Africans were among the crowds. >>> Joanna Sugden | Friday, April 09, 2010

Tension as Terre'Blanche is Buried in South Africa

Austria’s Far-right Shows Its Strength
Youths make an illegal Nazi salute at a Freedom Party demonstration in Graz, Austria, May 2009. Photo courtesy of Global Post
GLOBAL POST: GRAZ, Austria — Flushed with recent electoral success, the Austrian far-right's bid for seats in the European Parliament has come with a level of xenophobic, pro-Nazi, anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim antics not seen for years — and in many cases against the law.

This is where "where the path of open doors takes you" said Heinz-Christian Strache, leader of the Freedom Party (FP), the largest far-right party in Austria, surveying the hall in which rival Sikh sects clashed May 24. The incident left Sant Rama Anand, a 57-year-old preacher, shot dead, 16 others injured and triggered rioting in India. According to Ewald Stadler, the main candidate for the FP's smaller breakaway rival, Alliance for the Future (AF), it was time for a travel ban on "problem gurus."

The week before, the FP's Martin Graf, deputy president of parliament, had said Jewish community leader Ariel Muzicant was the "instigator of anti-fascist left-wing terrorism." His comments even went too far for the AF, which is now keen to be seen as the more sober face of the far-right. The governing coalition has called for Graf's resignation. >>> By Phil Cain | Saturday, May 30, 2009