Cop Sentenced to Prison for Posting Photo of Hitler’s Favorite Food
Newsweek | 4/13/21| Darragh RocheA police officer in Austria has been sentenced to a conditional prison sentence of 10 months after he shared a photo of a dish supposedly favored by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.
The man, who has not been named in media reports, is a police officer in the Austrian state of Burgenland. He was found guilty of violating the Verbotsgesetz 1947 – otherwise known as Prohibition Act 1947, which aims to suppress a revival of Nazism in the country.
It is alleged that the officer shared a photo of Hitler’s favorite meal on April 20, the dictator’s birthday, last year. Hitler was originally from Austria and later migrated to Germany.
“Lunch today! Egg dumplings with green salad!” the man wrote on Facebook along with a photo of the dish, according to ORF, a public service broadcaster in the country.
The dish is called “Eiernockerl mit grünem Salat” in German and is often referred to as Gnocchi in English. It is widely understood that Hitler was a vegetarian by the time he came to power in Germany.
I can understand the rationale behind the Prohibition Act in Germany because, you know, Germans, but here it would be Facebook and Twitter doing the censoring.
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