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09:22 December 1st, 2006

Santa salutes Christmas…or something…

Posted by: Robert Basler
Tags: Uncategorized

He’s makin’ a list… and you don’t want to be on it!

It seems this German chain of shops has removed miniature wooden Santa Claus figures from its shelves and destroyed them, because customers complained it looked like they were giving the stiff-armed Hitler salute.

A spokesman said the chain was ”astonished” at the reaction to the statues, but added that “we responded and had the entire inventory removed and destroyed.” Here’s the story
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Belarussians dressed as Father Frost in Minsk in a 2005 photo.  REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko

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