According to media reports, the ninth-graders have taken to popular messaging app WhatsApp to promote Nazi slogans.
By JPOST.COM STAFFMan gives Nazi salute (photo credit: REUTERS)
A school district in Germany has caused quite the media stir this week after images of students saluting with Hitler-like mustaches surfaced in an influential publication.German newspaper Bild broke the story on Tuesday, revealing that members of a high school class were communicating using the notorious Nazi salute and other 1930s-Germany rhetoric.According to local media reports, the ninth-graders have taken to popular messaging app WhatsApp to promote Nazi slogans, anti-Semitic jokes and other offensive content. Twenty-nine students are part of the group.The school kids reportedly greet one another with the 'Hiel Hitler' sign, a symbol that has come to define the Third Reich's reign over 70 years ago.The case has grabbed the attention of the cops, who have launched an investigation into the school. A police spokesperson said they were mulling legal action against the teens.As for the school district's knowledge of the controversial activity - a spokesperson from the Education Ministry stated that if the report turned out to be true, they would show no tolerance.
