On Sunday, two Finnish tourists greeted the Nazis at the Dachau concentration camp monument in the Bavarian region of southern Germany on Sunday, including German media coverage of the country’s largest news site. Der Spiegelas well as the news agency DPA.
Nazi salute, Hitler salute, or Sieg Heil the greeting was a greeting used in the 1930s and 1940s and performed by extending the right hand into the air with a straightened hand. It is illegal in today’s Germany and is considered a crime that can result in up to three years in prison.
German police told local media that two Finnish men, aged 50 and 52, had photographed each other greeting the memorial site in front of the nature center. A third man from their party also took photos of the incident, police added, before eyewitnesses reported to police.
A police spokesman told the media that the Finnish men acknowledged the greeting, but meant it. "joke". Tourists were believed to have been under the influence of alcohol at the time, the spokesman added.
The Finnish men also said they did not know that greeting was a punishable act in Germany.
"But maybe they could have thought that this is not welcome in Germany," a police spokesman told the media, adding that criminal proceedings have been instituted over the case.
All three men have been given lifetime bans on the monument.
Source: The Nordic Page