Baker faces jail for Nazi cake
An Austrian baker could be sent to jail for making a cake decorated with swastikas and other Nazi symbols.Skip related content
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Manfred Klaschka, owner of the bakery in Maria Enzersdorf, near Vienna, made the £80 cake for a customer several years ago.
However photos of the cake, which was also decorated with an arm performing a Hitler salute, can still be seen in a binder for customers showcasing the shop's previously-baked goods.
The baker may face jail after the Mauthausen Committee, a holocaust awareness group, asked Austrian prosecutors to press charges against the pastry shop. Austrian law prohibits propaganda that glorifies Nazi or World War Two symbols.
A spokesman for the public prosecutor's office has confirmed that the group had pressed charges but said it was too early to comment.
Klaschka tried to distance himself from scandal, telling Austrian TV (via Associated Press): "If it's requested, it's made. I don't want to be pulled into this because I'm a confectioner, and there's nothing more to it."
The Third Reich-themed cake also featured a German fighter plane, a soldier's helmet and a Nazi military decoration.
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