Man facing jail over Hitler ringtone

By Europe correspondent Emma Alberici

A German man is facing up to six months in jail for having a speech by Adolf Hitler as his mobile phone ringtone.

Every time the 54-year-old man's phone rang, it played a speech by Hitler, in which the former dictator pledged the destruction of world Jewry if Germany was dragged into war.

Fellow passengers on a train in Hamburg heard the ringtone several times during a journey and reported him to police, who seized the telephone and arrested him when the train stopped.

Police found swastika stickers and a photo of Hitler on the telephone with the words "the greatest commander of all time" written over it.

The man was charged with violating the German constitution, which expressly forbids public displays of the Nazis and all their works.

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