The Offending Gesture | Peatix tag:peatix.com,2011:1 2019-10-30T19:17:17-04:00 Peatix Phil Mayer The Offending Gesture tag:peatix.com,2016:event-136704 2016-01-05T20:00:00EST 2016-01-05T20:00:00EST The Offending Gesture is a humorous and poetic indictment of American foreign policy in Iraq, told through the true story of Hitler and his dog, Blondie. Wellman takes as his subject a political incident that occurred in 1941 just before Germany invaded the Soviet Union, when Tor Borg, a Finnish businessman infamously taught his own dog Jackie to do the Nazi Party Salute in response to the command, "Heil Hitler."