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# Councillor made Nazi salute in Adolf Hitler outfit
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## Mike Gardner, a council leader from Harrogate, has been photographed at a
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party dressed up as Adolf Hitler and performing the Nazi salute.
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![Harrogate councillor Mike Gardner who dressed as hitler at a fancy dress
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birthday party the conroversial picture was posted on facebook: Councillor
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made Nazi salute in Hitler outfit][1]
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Harrogate councillor Mike Gardner who dressed as hitler at a fancy dress
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birthday party the conroversial picture was posted on facebook Photo: ROSS
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PARRY
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9:39AM BST 22 Oct 2010
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Tory councillor Mr Gardner has now been deselected after pictures of him at
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the fancy dress birthday bash were leaked onto the Internet via the social
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networking site, Facebook.
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His colleagues in the Conservative party said his behaviour was "unacceptable"
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while Cllr Gardner claims he was the victim of a smear campaign.
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While the politician will not be able to stand as a conservative in the next
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election he remains leader of Harrogate Borough Council, North Yorkshire, and
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a ward member until the end of his office term.
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Heather Adderley, chairman of the Harrogate and Knaresborough Conservative
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Association, said: "For Councillor Mike Gardner to dress up as he did is
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totally unacceptable and we condemn it.
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"Councillor Gardner was deselected and as a result will not (be) standing as a
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Conservative candidate next year.
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"A new candidate has already been selected and is busy working in the ward."
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Cllr Gardner defended himself, saying: "I don't dress up as a Nazi normally.
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This was an exception. I am not a Nazi and I don't behave like that.
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"It was a private birthday party and the dress code was the war.
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"Do I feel ashamed? No. It was fancy dress and a piece of fun.
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"The invitation was to depict the year in which you were born, I was born in
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the war."
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He added that he checked with the organiser whether his outfit would be
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acceptable.
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He said: "There were a lot of people at the party who are in the armed forces
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or the MOD, it was not offensive to them or to the family.
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"I was brought up in the war, my mother and father were heavily engaged in
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fighting the Nazis. We grew up hating the Nazis.
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My father was a pilot in the war, and my mother worked in the munitions
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industry.
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The fight against Hitler and the Nazis dominated my life in childhood. In that
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context everyone was greatly amused.
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"If I had done this as a councillor I would expect to be shot.
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"I have done nothing wrong, I am sorry that offence has been taken but it does
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not impinge any standard in the council."
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He blamed political rivals for leaking the photo, adding that it had been done
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in a "nasty" and "dubious" way.
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He insisted that he "can not remember" doing a Nazi salute or having his photo
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taken, but he has been forced to defend himself to his fellow councillors.
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In a statement to them, he said: Now we dont hate the Germans but we do make
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fun about the Nazis - so to fit in with the evening I hired a German or Nazi
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uniform for that specific occasion.
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There were many weird and wonderful outfits and it was a very successful piece
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of fun or pantomime as intended and I offended nobody by dressing as Hitler.
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His partner later put the pictures on Facebook with restricted access but they
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were withdrawn soon afterwards.
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A spokesman for Harrogate council said Cllr Gardner was still council leader
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and remained Tory member for the Pannal ward.
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She added there was "no issue with the members' code of conduct".
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The councillor was suspended form his local Conservative party in July,
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following the birthday bash in May.
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