Sandego.net – Samoa’s prime minister has issued an apology after footage from a 2007 family reunion showed him making a Nazi salute and leading others in a chant of “Heil Hitler.” Laaulialemalietoa Leuatea Schmidt said the conduct in the video was inappropriate, hurtful and inconsistent with his beliefs, as well as those of Samoa’s government and people.

The seven-second clip was recorded during a private family gathering in Savai’i, Samoa’s largest island. At the time, Laaulialemalietoa was serving as deputy speaker of Parliament. In the footage, he appears to instruct a group of roughly a dozen people to raise their right hands before repeating the Nazi-associated phrase. Others at the gathering follow the gesture and words.…