A rogue protester gatecrashed the NSW Covid press conference on Saturday morning to yell out a bizarre reference to WWII.
The unidentified man cried out 'Nuremberg 2.0' seconds before NSW police commissioner Mick Fuller spoke to the waiting pack of journalists.
Mr Fuller was visibly unimpressed by the interruption, glaring at the anonymous protester before speaking about the fines residents would now be subject to under the harsher Greater Sydney lockdown.
The term Nuremberg is infamous for a series of war trials held in Germany between 1945 and 1946, soon after the end of World War Two.
The trials resulted in a number of former Nazi leaders being indicted and tried as war criminals by the International Military Tribunal.
Sydney residents can expect even tougher restrictions and bigger fines after 466 new cases on Saturday (pictured, people exercising on the Bay Run in Sydney's inner-west)
The protester's phrase refers to an online conspiracy theory perpetuating Covid-19 is a hoax and all individuals and organisations involved in managing the pandemic - including governments - will one day be held accountable for their 'crimes against humanity'.
According to the ABC, google trends even show an increase in searches for the Nuremberg trials and 'Nuremberg trials 2021'.
Among many misleading and false claims attributed to German-American lawyer Dr Reiner Fuellmich are suggestions that Covid-19 vaccines are 'in violation of all 10 of the Nuremberg Codes'.
The Nuremberg Code was a set of 10 principles developed in 1947 following the trials of Nazi doctors accused of running inhumane, and often deadly, experiments on concentration camp prisoners without their consent, according to Full Fact.
The first principle of the Code states that 'voluntary consent is essential'.
Conspiracy theorists hold the incorrect view that Covid vaccines are 'experimental', and that individuals are being coerced against their will into having the jab.
Full Fact stated the Nuremberg Code would 'only be relevant at the research trial stage of a vaccine's development, not its rollout to the general public'.
On Saturday, NSW recorded a staggering 466 new Covid cases, forcing the government to
