By Chris Walters on June 11, 2004 at 12:26 PM EST

Yesterday's Washington Post has a story on John Bradshaw Layfield's Nazi salute in Munich this past weekend. It's a very good read with quotes from Bradshaw about the incident.

"They hung me out to dry," Layfield told The TV Column.

"I was playing a character. It's the same as Vin Diesel playing a Nazi."

Layfield insists he's not an anti-Semite and says he made the gestures to incite the German audience to root for his opponent, Eddie Guerrero, during the Munich match.

"I'm a bad guy [on WWE]. I'm supposed to incite the crowd. I've done [the Nazi gestures] for decades. I really didn't think anything of it -- I know how bad it is, I've lived [in Germany]. I've been to Dachau, seen those places where they exterminated millions of Jews."

To read the story, visit washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29937-2004Jun9.html

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