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Worst. Ringtone. Ever.

German man arrested after phone rings

by
Marc Tracy
July 01, 2010

A German man could spend six months in prison for publicly displaying Nazis and Nazi works, in violation of the German constitution (via Ynet). The 54-year-old was initially caught when, on a Hamburg train, his phone rang—the man’s “ring tone” being a recording of Hitler promising “destruction of world Jewry” (police subsequently discovered various Nazi paraphernalia in his possession). What is illegal in Germany, it seems, is merely extremely tacky everywhere else.

Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.