German prosecutors have decided to take no action against an artist who created a garden gnome raising its right arm in a Nazi salute. City prosecutors have ruled that the 40cm (15in) statue was poking fun at Nazism, rather than promoting it and therefore was not illegal.
Artist Ottmar Hoerl: “It is pretty clear that garden gnomes are silly and that they do silly things. In 1942 I would have been shot by the Nazis for this.”
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