Trier – The district court in Trier has convicted a former innkeeper of incitement to hatred by advertising a “Hitler apple strudel”. The court on Thursday handed down a five-month suspended prison sentence, a court spokeswoman said. Accordingly, the probation condition consists, among other things, in the payment of 800 euros to a non-profit organization. The verdict is not yet legally binding.
The former operator of a café in the clubhouse of an allotment garden in Trier was accused of labeling an advertising display with the words “Original Hitler’s apple strudel/Sieg Heil/8.88 euros”. The “H” was drawn with incomplete swastikas. On the other side of the display, terms such as “gas” and “Jewish blood” were mentioned. According to the district court, a witness observed the accused writing on the board in front of his café in April last year and reported the innkeeper.
