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Saturday, July 18, 2009

Nazi Gnome

The BBC reports on how the president of Nuremberg´s Academy of Fine Arts has caused commotion following an exhibition of a garden gnome raising the Nazi salute. The artist claim that it is making fun of the Nazis and cannot believe that a minor exhibition has suddenly been given such negative publicity. However Nuremberg had a special place in Nazi Germany and German laws are, and rightly so, very strict on Nazi related publications. The gnome was put there by the gallery owner and not the artist, who wanted to ridicule the Nazi ideology by portraying gnomes as the master race.

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