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The Gnome with the Nazi Salute: Art or a Crime?

Date: July 20, 2009

Author: Tristana Moore

QUOTE: In a case that pits art against the country's anti-Nazi laws, prosecutors in the south German city of Nuremberg launched an investigation last week after a gnome giving the Hitler salute was put on display in the window of an art gallery.

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Key People:

• Adolf Hitler

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• Abstract Principles
  • Control / Access / Permission
    • Choices/Tolerance/Flexibility
  • Information
    • Arguments / Debates / Demagoguery
      • Context

• Arts & Humanities
  • Painting/Sculpture/Visual Arts

• Law & Justice
  • Civil Rights / Equal Protection
    • Free Speech: Other Issues/General
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    • Hate Groups/Hate Crimes/Hate Speech

• Europe
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    • Germany

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