Didn't take long
In life, he died from a pistol shot to the head. But yesterday, Hitler's wax effigy met the fate of the French nobility after 1789: decapitation. A controversial waxwork that went on show at Madame Tussauds in Berlin last week was beheaded by anti-fascist protesters within minutes of the doors opening.
'A man leapt over the ropes and, with a
single whack, the head was off,' said a witness.
A 41-year-old man, a member of Antifa, a radical group opposed to neo-Nazi violence in Germany, was apprehended by police shortly afterwards. He faces charges of criminal damage, assault and trespass.
Some 25 workers spent about four months on the waxwork, using more than 2,000 pictures and pieces of archive material.
Last night, as curators took away the decapitated dictator for repairs, it was unclear when the wax Hitler
will be seen again. Tussauds' management will meet tomorrow to decide whether to repair the figure or place it in storage. It is illegal in Germany to display any symbols or figures of the Third Reich that promote Nazism; Holocaust survivors had earlier attacked the decision to show the waxwork.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/06/germany
No surprise here ...
