# Samoa PM apologises after Nazi salute video emerges

https://mins.news/en/item/85934

- Al Jazeera, 2026-10-05 05:08 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10/5/samoa-pm-apologises-after-nazi-salute-video-emerges?traffic_source=rss

> Samoa Prime Minister La’auli Leuatea Schmidt has apologised after a newly surfaced 2007 video showed him leading a Nazi salute and saying “Heil Hitler” at a family gathering on Savai‘i. He called the words and gesture inappropriate, rejected Nazism, antisemitism, racism and extremism, and said the episode did not reflect his beliefs or Samoa’s values.

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