Israeli-American Tuvia Tenenbom facing police investigation for nazi salute at a rally in Germany.
Mr. Tenenbom was at an anti-nazi rally and was trying to get a neo-nazi to talk for an interview. Since neo-nazis are somewhat reluctant to give interviews, Mr. Tenenbom had a hidden mike and schmoozed up to one of them by doing the raised arm thing.
Mr. Neo-nazi saw Mr. Tenenbom was wired for sound and complained to the police about the nazi salute.
Performing the nazi salute is illegal in Germany, with exceptions only for "science and art".
Police in Magdeburg, Germany, are investigating him.
We do not know if police will accept his explanation that this was "impromptu performance art".
The K-landnews team views his methodology as scientific because we was trying to use non-threatening gestures and body language to approach his subject.
Same approach everybody recommends when you find yourself confronted by strange or dangerous creatures.
We do know there is precedent for displaying nazi stuff in public. For example, you can take flags that have swastikas from a museum (science, maybe) and then display them at the dedication ceremony of a German barracks (must be performance art, right?) without hearing a peep.
A piece of advice to German police: if any Jewish person displays the salute or other paraphernalia from those times, turn you head and look very intently at the gorgeous girl with the tie-dye peace sign a couple of yards over, or lose the clipboard.
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