Is It Possible To Not Know What A Nazi Salute Is?

[DangerUXD]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21829682

[Gromit]

All to do with context.

An stiiff arm raised at gnarling opposition team and supporters, then it seems like it was a deliberate nazis salute.

Do the same at the Chelsea Flower Show shouting coohee to your Aunty Ethel and it would be harmless.

I life ban from playing for the national team sends a message.

[ichkeria]

The message it sends to me is one of intolerance, hopelessness, the precluding of the possibility of anyone, ever, being rehabilitated.
A better message would be to ban the much older Paolo di Canio from ever managing a football team again.

[Sharingan]

Yes it's possible to be really really stupid. I met an actress a bit older than me probably 20 who said in all seriousness that Shakespeare wrote one of the sonnets for Anne Hathaway the actress. If you can be 400+ years out of step with your chosen profession I'm sure some stupid footballer could be unaware world war 2 ever happened at all.

[chrissa1]

We put our hands vertically up in the air at school 2sp, not at an angle.

[douglas9401]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21829682

[ludwig]

// He claims, after the fact, to be pointing at an injured squadmate in the crowd, //

Yeah, I also have a quirky way of pointing at people where I use only the middle finger of my right hand pointing upwards. It often gets misinterpreted as well.

[anotheoldgit]

A completely silly youthful action maybe, but to ban him for life, is completely OTT.

Some footballers have committed actual intentional physical harm, but have never had their whole footballing career brought to an end.

[douglas9401]

aog leaves an open goal.

[bednobs]

i think it's entirely possible for young people not to know. As has been said before, one of my thick acquaintances had no idea what the holocaust was or why/when it had occurred when i mentioned it one day

[Philoctetes]

Wouldn't it be a wonderful world where anyone can make a gesture like this, even accompanying it with nazi slogans, only for it to be met with "Don't be a silly billy"? Instead we have outrage, and the sort of reactions that polarise people, just what the stirrers want. Treat them as what they are, over-excited children attention seeking in a crowd.

[Mick-Talbot]

dodgy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8nxFVF-jfw&feature=youtu.be

[andy-hughes]

It is absolutely possible - plenty of professional sports people don't know who Adolf Hitler was - ignorance is rife in younger generations.

Of interest in thie case, is the still image compared with the video footage. Frozen in the moment, it looks very much like a salute, but when seen in movement, it looks like a wave, and I ceretainly think he should be given the benefit of the doubt.

A life ban is utterly out of proportion to the offence.

[mikey4444]

The easiest way to recognise a Nazi salute is to go to a meeting of the BNP. You will find plenty there. Also you might possibly see one at a UKIP meeting.

[Snafu03]

looks like they've made their minds up for him. Hitler would be proud.

[LazyGun]

Looks nothing like a wave to me, video or still.

And, whilst I agree that a lifetime ban is disproportionate, it is important to recognise that this is a lifetime ban from the National Squad - It does not prevent him developing his career as a professional player at club level.#

i think this Telegraph commentator sums it all up rather neatly, to me...
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jakewallissimons/100207819/so-giorgos-katidis-gave-a-nazi-salute-by-mistake-give-me-a-break-he-was-fanning-the-flames-of-greek-fascism/

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// The easiest way to recognise a Nazi salute is to go to a meeting of the BNP. You will find plenty there. Also you might possibly see one at a UKIP meeting. ///

Attend both regularly do you Mikey?

[Answerprancer]

"Attend both regularly do you Mikey?"
Do you think you'd recognise him in a crowd AOG? ;-)

[emmie]

no it isn't, and anyone would know what a Nazi salute would be it would be the Greeks, seeing how they suffered and died at the hands of them in very large numbers. The bloke should be ashamed to do such a thing.