A Hitler lookalike has been arrested in Austria on charges of glorifying the Nazi era, local officials say.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old man reportedly calls himself Harald Hitler.<\/p>\n
The man, sporting a side parting and a trademark moustache, had been seen having his photograph taken outside the house in Braunau am Inn in which Adolf Hitler was born.<\/p>\n
The lookalike had recently moved to the town on the German border, police spokesman David Furtner told the BBC.<\/p>\n
Mr Furtner said this was not a joke or a piece of performance art.<\/p>\n
“The young man knows exactly what he is doing,” the police spokesman said.<\/p>\n
He said the man had also been spotted in Vienna and Graz.<\/p>\n
Pictures of the man were published by Austria’s Heute.at news website on Monday.<\/a><\/p>\n Glorifying the Nazi era is a crime in Austria.<\/p>\n Last October, the Austrian authorities decided to demolish Hitler’s birthplace house to stop it becoming a focal point for neo-Nazis.<\/a><\/p>\n Hitler was born in a rented room on the top floor of the building on 20 April 1889.<\/p>\n During Nazi rule, the house was transformed into a shrine to Hitler as the town drew in a wave of tourists.<\/p>\n But as the Nazis began to lose control in 1944, it was shut.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"