{"id":294155,"date":"2017-02-14T06:40:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T06:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=294155"},"modified":"2017-02-14T06:40:30","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T06:40:30","slug":"hitler-lookalike-arrested-in-austria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=294155","title":{"rendered":"Hitler lookalike arrested in Austria"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Hitler lookalike has been arrested in Austria on charges of glorifying the Nazi era, local officials say.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old man reportedly calls himself Harald Hitler.<\/p>\n

The man, sporting a side parting and a trademark moustache, had been seen having his photograph taken outside the house in Braunau am Inn in which Adolf Hitler was born.<\/p>\n

The lookalike had recently moved to the town on the German border, police spokesman David Furtner told the BBC.<\/p>\n

Mr Furtner said this was not a joke or a piece of performance art.<\/p>\n

“The young man knows exactly what he is doing,” the police spokesman said.<\/p>\n

He said the man had also been spotted in Vienna and Graz.<\/p>\n

Pictures of the man were published by Austria’s Heute.at news website on Monday.<\/a><\/p>\n

Glorifying the Nazi era is a crime in Austria.<\/p>\n

Last October, the Austrian authorities decided to demolish Hitler’s birthplace house to stop it becoming a focal point for neo-Nazis.<\/a><\/p>\n

Hitler was born in a rented room on the top floor of the building on 20 April 1889.<\/p>\n

During Nazi rule, the house was transformed into a shrine to Hitler as the town drew in a wave of tourists.<\/p>\n

But as the Nazis began to lose control in 1944, it was shut.<\/p>\n

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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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