{"id":19664,"date":"2014-11-13T04:57:26","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T10:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=19664"},"modified":"2014-11-13T04:57:26","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T10:57:26","slug":"youth-hockey-coach-fired-for-posting-nazi-propaganda-on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/youth-hockey-coach-fired-for-posting-nazi-propaganda-on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth hockey coach fired for posting Nazi propaganda on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\">VANCOUVER, Canada (JTA) &#8212; A youth hockey coach in suburban Vancouver was fired for posting Nazi propaganda on social media.<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Christopher Maximilian Sandau, 33, was dismissed earlier this month by the North Delta Minor Hockey Association after refusing to remove the posts from his Facebook page, CTV News reported. Sandau also denies the Holocaust.<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222;\">His Facebook page included a photo of Adolf Hitler with the message \u201cAdolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told,\u201d as well as a swastika flag with the message, \u201cIf this flag offends you, you need a history lesson,\u201d the Vancouver Sun reported.<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u201cThe posts contained extreme and objectionably material believed to be incompatible with an important purpose of our minor hockey association &#8212; to promote and encourage good citizenship,\u201d NDMH president Anita Cairney said in a statement.<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Sandau insists he never mentioned his Nazi sympathies while coaching his players, who were in grades 6 to 9.<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u201cThe whole time I was coaching with these kids and interacting with the kids, my focus was only on hockey,\u201d Sandau told the Sun. \u201cI wasn\u2019t trying to impose this knowledge on anybody.\u201d<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222;\">In an interview with the Sun, Sandau, who said he played professional hockey in Germany, also denied the Holocaust, saying that the Jews seen in newsreels were dying of typhus and that the Germans were &#8220;doing their best to save them.&#8221;<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222;\">\u201cMy view on the history basically got me canned,\u201d Sandau complained.<\/span><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><br style=\"color: #222222;\" \/><span style=\"color: #222222;\">Sandau&#8217;s Facebook posts also included canards against Jews including that they control the banks, according to CTV News.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Youth%20hockey%20coach%20fired%20for%20posting%20Nazi%20propaganda%20on%20Facebook\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[6334,5124,8794,8790,8795,8788,6335,6333],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19665,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19664\/revisions\/19665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}