Nazi salute and signature of two Minnesota students sentenced by school officials

School administrators of a city located outside Minneapolis condemn as "anti-Semitic" and " scandalous "a message posted on a social media showing two students doing a Nazi salute in front of a poster that seems to illuminate Hitler and the Nazis.

The two students from Minnetonka High School giving the Nazi salute to an invitation to a dance that reads: "to be a Hit (ler) w / you, and I could nazi myself go with someone" "Be Mein? Yes or Nein?"

According to Minnetonka Superintendent of Schools, Dennis Peterson, the two students published the picture depicting the Nazi salute on social media, which was widely Republished on Facebook After the image was brought to the attention of the school administrators, the students removed it, said the Superintendent.

He called this act "scandalous act on the part of two of our students."

"This kind of image causes a lot of sadness and pain. Peterson said in a letter to the families in the district, "I condemn what has been done.

School officials did not reveal the names of students and said they could not disclose details of any disciplinary action for privacy reasons.

High school principal Jeff Erickson wrote in a statement to the school community that "the anti-Semitic media publication […] does not in any way reflect the core values ​​of our school."

The Minnesota Jewish Community Relations Council and the Dakotas issued a statement in which he said he was "deeply disturbed by the blatant anti-Semitic image circulating on social media."

"We are extremely worried about the lack of knowledge about the Holocaust in the millennia" statement, citing a study published in 2018 by the Claims Conference, according to which 66% of Millennials in the United States did not know what was Auschwitz. . "

" As a community, we must do an even better job of educating students about Hitler and the Holocaust, "he wrote.

This article written by Minnesota teens only comes two months after the start Wisconsin appeared to make a Nazi salute on a viral photo of prom