When German police helped a frightened girlfriend to collect her belongings from her ex-boyfriends apartment, they got more than they bargained for. The man's dog had banned Nazi symbols shaved into its fur - namely, a swastika and the SS insignia of Hitlere's Waffen-SS troops.

Public display of Nazi symbols is illegal in Germany so, if the dog has not been out of the apartment, no law has been broken. If, however, the dog has been taken out of the apartment bearing the symbols, the man faces a three year jail term.

Maybe it's all a fuss about nothing - perhaps he'd been drinking and was just taking a Herr of the dog

Reuters