Within hours, elected officials and regular Alaskans all
demanded an explanation from state officials: How had someone managed to get a vanity license plate bearing Nazi terminology?
On Saturday, one state lawmaker
promised to find out, and later, one woman
told the Anchorage Daily News that she had also spotted a Hummer with a license plate that read “FUHRER.”
But Allard, writing on Facebook later over the weekend, said she saw nothing wrong with either phrase. The Army veteran and mortgage company owner pointed out that “fuhrer” means “leader” and “reich” translates to “realm” — even though both words are closely associated with Adolf Hitler and his rule of Germany.
“Now, before you know it the German word Danke will be outlawed as it sounds close to Donkey,” she wrote in comments on her official Facebook page, according to
screenshots posted to Facebook by another assembly member, Meg Zaletel.