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.Ĭamera surveillance and museum officials were meant to stop inappropriate behavior. The comic timing is on point, especially when the fiance’s lacerated leg is wittingly and unwittingly crippled by the frenzied people in the room. Responding to warnings that it might become a site of pilgrimage for neo-Nazis, Tussauds depicted Hitler as a broken man in his bunker just before his 1945 defeat and death. All death scenes in this sequence are carried out with the right amount of absurdity and creativity that are too ludicrous to not laugh at. The Nazi dictator committed suicide in his bunker close by in 1945. Many Germans were upset that Hitler was included in a commercial amusement close to the Holocaust Memorial and other memory sites.

The desk behind which Hitler sat was left unoccupied after the beheading while repairs to the figure were carried out. Madame Tussaud's, a British company, defended its decision to persist with the display against widespread criticism from Germans, saying, 'Hitler represents a decisive part of Berlin's history which we can't just pretend did not happen.'Ī beheading at the museum The beheaded figure of Hitler was taken out of the museum for repairs Image: APĪ 41-year-old rest-home orderly wrenched the head off the figure on July 5, a few minutes after the waxworks opened for business in Germany. Muse Grvin Paris waxworks museum photograph souvenir Prince, French Castles, The Siege, Joan. The controversial display was protected by a glass wall and security staff, unlike the original one which was completely open to visitors. The effigy of the Nazi dictator was seated behind a desk at Madame Tussaud's, a popular tourist attraction on Berlin's well-known Unter den Linden boulevard.

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