Prosecutors won't charge artist who created figures
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2009/07/23/german-gnomes.html
Garden gnomes created by a German artist to have arms raised in a "Heil Hitler" salute have been found not guilty of being Nazis.
Authorities have decided to drop their case against artist Ottmar Hoerl for creating 700 of the gold-painted gnomes for a display in a gallery in Nuremberg, Germany.
An investigation began after a viewer complained that the gnomes break German laws forbidding the use of Nazi symbolism ...
Not guilty of creating Nazi symbols, more exactly.
In a sane society, he'd still be up on charges for what should be the capital offence of Garden Gnome creation.