A Lithuanian teenager who wore a Nazi uniform during a festival was acquitted Friday of violating a new law that prohibits the display of Nazi and Soviet-era symbols.
A court said Audrius Petreikis, a 17-year-old member of a local history club, did not commit a crime because he was only trying to educate others about what the soldiers who occupied his country would have looked like.
Petreikis was detained in August after he donned a Wehrmacht uniform and then took part in a historical parade in the port city of Klaipeda.
The new legislation forbids the public display of Nazi and Soviet symbols such as the swastika, hammer and sickle and …
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