Man who used Hitler oath on voice mail gets 2-month sentence

An Austrian man who used an oath of loyalty to Adolf Hitler for his cell phone voice mail has been sentenced to two months in prison, reports WISTV.

Police accidentally came across the message --which includes the repeating of the phrase "Sieg Heil!"-- on the 20-year-old's phone in 2004 when they called to question him about a burglary. The defendant says that the download of the message from the Internet was a "spontaneous act" and that he did not fully embrace the meaning of the oath.

He was sentenced to a year in prison for theft and fencing stolen goods, but the court decided to tack on two extra months for using the oath. There is a law in Austria that makes Nazi propaganda a crime.

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