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Ripping Adolf Hitler's Head Off
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tl;dr: some dude ripped (fake wax) hitler's head off
Sat Jul 5, 8:08 AM ET
BERLIN (Reuters) - A man tore the head from a controversial waxwork figure of Adolf Hitler on the opening day of Berlin's Madame Tussauds museum Saturday, police said.
Just minutes after the museum opened, the 41-year-old German man pushed aside two security men guarding the figure before ripping off the head in protest at the exhibit, a police spokesman said. The police were alerted and arrested the man.
The waxwork figure of a glum-looking Adolf Hitler in a mock bunker during the last days of his life was criticized as being in bad taste. A media preview of the new branch of Madame Tussauds Thursday was overshadowed by a row over the exhibit.
Critics said it was inappropriate to display the Nazi dictator, who started World War Two and ordered the extermination of Europe's Jews, in a museum alongside celebrities, pop stars, world statesmen and sporting heroes.
Dressed in a grey suit, the figure of Hitler gazed downwards with a despondent stare, his arm outstretched on a large wooden table with a map of Europe on the wall of his gloomy bunker.
About 25 workers spent about four months on the waxwork, using more than 2,000 pictures and pieces of archive material and also guided by a model of the "Fuehrer" in the London branch of Madame Tussauds where he is standing upright.
It is illegal in Germany to show Nazi symbols and art glorifying Hitler and the exhibit was cordoned off to stop visitors posing with him.
Unobtrusive signs asked visitors to refrain from taking photos or posing with Hitler "out of respect for the millions of people who died during World War Two." Camera surveillance and museum officials were meant to stop inappropriate behavior.
Institutions such as the foundation for Germany's central Holocaust memorial site condemned the idea of the exhibit as tasteless, saying it had been included to generate business.
The wax figure is the latest in a gradual breaking down of taboos about Hitler in Germany more than 60 years after the end of the war and the Holocaust in which some six million Jews were killed.
The 2004 film "Downfall" provoked controversy as it portrayed the leader in a human light during the last days of his life and last year a satire about Hitler by Swiss-born Jewish director Dani Levy was released in Germany.
(Reporting by Paul Carrel and Sabine Ehrhardt; editing by Philippa Fletcher)
tl;dr: some dude ripped (fake wax) hitler's head off
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Boooooooooooooo get off the stage.
that was worse than the holocaust
there was one time on conan o'brien where one of the band members shaved his moustache off
and they tried to replace it with various fake ones
some dude in the audience booed when they did "the hitler"
and conan goes "did you just boo hitler?
that's the understatement of the century!
the dude single-handedly ruined the twentieth century
'hang on guys, I've got this one, boooooooooooo'"
YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH
hey let's just ignore the bad parts of history, that'll make them go away
It's a shame he wasn't more head-strong.
An alliance that could have been
This looks like a really well done sculpture, I feel bad for the workers that did this just to have it ruined.
also this;
Burned to ash outside his bunker.
He ordered his body to be burned in the streets by the soldiers in the bunker so that the German citizens couldn't desecrate it like the Italians did to Mussolini
e; capitalization
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no?
goodness why not
Yes it is. Fuck Goebbels
YOU CAN'T PROVE IT WON'T
you can go back in time now and fight them
I know this because I did it recently
I refuse to learn from my mistakes or even the things I don't mess up.
THAT'S WHAT HITLER WOULD SAY
I could do that but I could also play Freedom Force vs the Third Reich
You know that issue that brought back the Rikti aliens? Original plan was to bring back the 5th Column.
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too late, I stopped playing
He'll never be the head of a major corporation.
It's Europe pretty much everyone has a relative who was killed by the nazis.
misplaced aggression is the best
My dad used to beat me so I will walk into an art gallery and chainsaw the statue of david in half
because THAT'S the right thing to do
dang man I'm just sayin'
AT LEAST HITLER PROPOSED SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS
FINAL SOLUTIONS IN SOME CASES
HOW ARE YOU
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